In the next day or so, 30-foot to 50-foot wave faces are possible, according to the National Weather Service, the type of prediction that sends professional wave-riders into an extremely mellow frenzy.
Ms. Gummer, the star of "Emily Owens, M.D.," CW's new drama having its premiere Oct. 16, is spending most of her time on the Vancouver, British Columbia, set, while Mr. Walker, most recently in the film "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," is, as she put it, "a little bit of all over the place," still riding the erratic professional waves she knows so well.
"It was so fun to see how casual she approached each line on all of her waves," Ian Walsh, a professional big wave surfer who was in the lineup with Hamilton that day, told Surfline.com.com
Most professional big wave surfers will also pay $500 to $1,000 per big wave swell for a personal water safety team to watch them from a jet ski and rescue them if they wipe out.
"Of all the big waves in the world, I think it has the most velocity," professional big wave surfer Mark Healey recently told National Geographic.
Read more: Owen Paterson's climate change scepticism 'has blinded him to future flooding risks' Yesterday waves were recorded as high as 27ft at Land's End, and reports on surfing forecast websites suggested scores of professional "big wave chasers" had followed Hercules' movements across the Atlantic.
Last month, Kai Lenny, a professional big wave surfer from Maui, took a motorized surfboard out on Jaws, the monster Hawaiian surf break -- and lived to tell about it, marking a new era in the sport of surfing.
Scores of professional big wave-chasing surfers packed their bags and headed for coasts in western Europe, as forecasting website Magic Seaweed – dubbed "the modern surfers' bible" – predicted an "Atlantic Code Red".
Competitor Bianca Valenti, who has pushed for women to be included in professional big-wave surf contests, called the day a big step forward for women in the sport.
Dorian, 41, who is one of a select band of professional big-wave surfers who spend their days poring over global swell charts, had been waiting for this moment and dropped everything to travel 30 hours via Honolulu, Los Angeles and Munich to Bilbao for a chance to ride Belharra, a famous deepwater break a mile out to sea off the French Basque country.
