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via SFGate.com:
Think you can surf a 78-foot wave?

Garrett McNamara did, and broke the Guinness World Records for the largest wave ridden for more than a foot.

But the 44-year-old Hawaiian pro surfer had no intentions to do so when he woke up that morning in Portugal, the Associated Press reports.

McNamara soon changed his mind after some encouragement from friends. Luckily he listened,