The NSW Public Works’ Manly Hydraulics Laboratory Wave Buoy - located about twelve kilometres offshore from Dee Why - broke a couple of records. Once in a decade ‘rogue waves’ to smash Sydney beaches (File image) Credit: Getty Images Bondi Beach could produce its biggest surf in more than a decade as “rogue waves” between five and six metres pound the NSW coast over the next four days. “There was a big one,” he said. Some of Australia’s most famous beaches, including Bondi and Manly, produced huge swells on Friday and … The Coastalwatch 'Surf Forecast' refers to breaking wave heights in the surf zone that are forecasted for a region. What a week in Surfing. Up to 25 metres of beach at Collaroy and Narrabeen has been swept away by huge waves generated by the east coast low that brought a deluge to Sydney at … Sydney beaches are being pounded with their biggest waves in years, prompting professional and amateur surfers alike to paddle out and test their skills.

Sydney's Big Wave Spot is Now the Worlds Most Famous Red Bull Cape Fear, will go down in history as the worlds most insane surf competition. Since then, Australia has produced many World Champion surfers. Coastalwatch provides 14 regional surf forecast daily across Australia.

On Tuesday afternoon it measured its largest ever Maximum Wave Height, and it broke the record for number of hours the Significant Wave Height stayed above six metres. Even better than Eddie Aikau!

One man told reporters he had been sitting with his friends and filming the waves as they rolled in before the incident. “I saw the wave hit.”

Australian contest director and big wave surfer Mark Mathews says the surf there is “the heaviest and most dangerous wave in the world” and he decided to … His original board is still on display at the Freshwater Surf Lifesaving Club.

Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku popularised surfing on his visit to Sydney in 1914-15, first hitting Australian waves at  Freshwater  in 1914.