Severn Bore rekord

Bore surfing je surfanje valov, ki jih v reki naredi visoka spomladanska in jesenska plima. Najbolj znane reke kjer je to mogo&#269e so reke v Braziliji, kjer se tak val imenuje Pororoca, potem Mascaret v rekah Dorodgne in Garonne pri Bordeauxu v Franciji in Severn na reki Severn v Gloucestershire. Pred kratkim je surfer, ki je surfal Severn Bore ve&#269 kot sedem milj postavil svetovni rekord v dol&#382ini vo&#382nje.

G. King (41) iz Gloucestershire je surfal kar eno uro in 16 minut in ob tem dosegel hitrost &#269ez 30 km/h. Prejšnji rekord je dr&#382al brazilec Serghino Laus, ki je na reki Araguari v Braziliji surfal 6.3 milje. Spomladanske plime ob reki Severn so druge najvišje nasvetu. Sam val pa lahko dose&#382e do 2m. King je val surfal &#382e ve&#269 kot 100 x v 20 letih. Povedal je: "I hadn't planned to go for a record attempt because I didn't think the conditions were that good, but I had been going for a distance, hadn't fallen off and the wave still hadn't broken. "I thought 'hang on' there a good chance of breaking the record here. "It takes some skill but it also takes a lot of luck to surf the bore. "There was nobody more surprised than me when I realised I had broken the record. "It was totally unexpected and it was doubly pleasing to break it in my own back yard."

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