Maxed out Seal Beach swell Esther oil platform waves Jan 6 11 and 13. Drone Video Cloudbreak 

The Partridge Family ..Rocks Cali !!

Sounds like Galactic

For life!!

Someone shoot down his drone. I want the last 5 minutes of my life back

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Great to hear the James gang

Man, thanks very much! There are so many guys that are amazing doing the drone surfing videos I figured take a different approach, appreciate the comment!

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Thanks!

Appreciate that

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I remember that 75 there wasn't the platform .when I surfed it I was by myself ,it was scary way out there .weird nobody was around .long time ago .and it was consistent . Yeah swells by the platform crazy 2023

Thanks 🙏❤️

That was killer

Money shot for sure, I work in marine construction and we are the company that dredged the new channel for huntington harbor, We had a near shore disposal site. We took an area that was about 20 to 25 feet deep and brought it to -15. In that shot you can see it was breaking with a pretty nice left on the spot. The material was just sand so that one storm may have ended that spot.

I remember that storm, Its vague because it was a long time ago,

@@bigwavebill Yeap the memories are still there - just some details have been lost now haha. Although I still have a clear memory of my 6'2" Town & Country humming like a whistle - then never ever doing it again. Should have kept that board it would have been a great wall hanger now. Thanks again for helping me to dig up some fond memories.

It was a glorious wave when you could keep the speed going from cloud break all the way through to the the inside shortbreak bowl. Having that speed let you hit that reform steep bowl section as deep as you want, and get spit out under the sand after that thick brown barrel.

It would be a washing machine of used syringes

yep,, I grew up HB and definitely only time I have seen it like this. I was working inside on the base tripping out on waves coming over the breakwater.

manson moved their barges inside, connolly didnt which i thought was a weird call.

load b4ufly app or air control app, look at your airspace you want to fly in, and see who controls it, san diego area you have a lot of military no fly zones, but there are plenty of areas you can fly.

on the to do list,

funny you should ask, my main job is hydrographic surveys and I have surveyed all around southern California, west of the rig is about -43, an area around the rig that is about 400 by 1000 feet comes all the way up to -24, (-18 right at the rig) going inshore from the rig is about -32 , I should have included a little picture in the video of the bathymetry .

the swell was pretty straight west but it hits off the jetty reflects and hits itself making that shape

That cross wave pattern either means you have a combo swell ie 2 separate swells from different directions, or in this case one large swell that hits off a jetty reflects off of it and hits itself from a different direction. That wouldn't necessarily cause a rip tide

if you mean the breakwall protecting anaheim bay 1944

Seal Beach on the south side of the pier is an epic shore break with wedging peaks that break super close to shore on all W/NW swells. Slater was out on this swell. There's usually at least a few pros charging it when it's on which is pretty much all winter swells here in So. Cal. The north side of the pier sucks. There's a little seawall under the pier that creates a totally different bottom contour between north and south sides thus creating two completely different waves. North side of the pier is weak, mushy and closes out most of the time and only half the size of south side. In this video there's a great view looking at the beach from out side the lineup and you can see the refraction that's taking place with the waves bouncing off the jetty causing the wedging peaks. That's just a quick example of the wave. There's way more to the place. There's also a cloud break wave that's kind of cool but it's mostly mushy but still powerful and then there's the oil rig wave that cracks off of when it's really big. It's definitely an advanced wave when it's working.

Surfer dude spot on bout wedging shorebreak .... Really that's seal beach always been that way... Lots of guys love it and the ones who do flock there when there's a hurricane in Baja California... Next beach pier down southward Huntington (5 miles maybe 6) has variety of breaks from the Cliff and Southside Huntington beach pier gets pumping outside but no barrells like Surfer dude said! Huge barrells mean lips! PS my Dad was over there fighting in BUNA SANANANDA ✌️

@@surferdude8086 Hey thanks for the run down. I could see what looked like a peak that would run along the shorebreak with a good bank. I was waiting for it to break out where the oil rig is and figured on the right tide it’s probably epic on occasion. Im heading over to the US later this year and Im looking for a few breaks to visit while there.

@mark edmunds look at videos of seal from 01-11-23 it was a pretty fun day

@@markedmunds1966 No worries. 🤙 If you're here in winter and have wheels then there's definitely a couple waves you need to surf that are epic. One is Rincon which is north in Ventura county but totally worth the trip. Look it up if you haven't heard about it and check out the set up on Google Earth. Its a proper point break that you'll be super stoked on. And of course Trestles on the San Diego/Orange County border. Uppers and Churches are the "go to" spots in winter for quality local waves. There's a few more places in Orange County that you can score some good surf if you want to just keep it local but San Diego has some gems that you want to hit as well. Orange county is central to all the epic spots that So Calif has to offer.

yes some sets broke, it took so long to fly out there only had a couple minutes before I had to head back.

@@bigwavebill I knew it yeah bro great video again I sent that one to my best friend and my brothers they loved it

What river?

its nothing compared to cortes bank or jaws etc, but for here it was historic, spots working that don't turn on ever,

1st funk no 49 James gang , second pick up the pieces average white band, lastly Blondie One way or another

@@bigwavebill 1st aha , my man. Thanks

Big enough, for Seal.

Slow, a bit like Waikiki, the relatively shallow sand bottom goes out for miles. San Gabriel river dumped sand for thousands of years.

Still going