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The Banzai Pipeline is crazy. Huge waves and a scenic area made for some great footage. Caught a few mini wave rainbows and a cool mist that covered the whole area. Definitively a must see if you visit Oahu.
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The Banzai Pipeline, or simply “Pipeline” or “Pipe,” is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O’ahu’s North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean where waves start to break once they reach the shallows of a reef. Pipeline is notorious for huge waves which break in shallow water just above a sharp and cavernous reef, forming large, hollow, thick curls of water that surfers can tube ride. There are three reefs at Pipeline in progressively deeper water further out to sea that activate according to the increasing size of approaching ocean swells.
The location’s compound name combines the name of the surf break (Pipeline) with the name of the beach fronting it (Banzai Beach). It got its name in December 1961, when surfing movie producer Bruce Brown was driving the North with California surfers Phil Edwards and Mike Diffenderfer. Brown stopped at the then-unnamed site to film Edwards catching several waves. At the time, there was a construction project on an underground pipeline on adjacent Kamehameha Highway, and Diffenderfer made the suggestion to name the break “Pipeline”. The name was first used in Brown’s movie Surfing Hollow Days. It also lent its name to a 1963 hit by surf music rockers The Chantays.
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If you don’t already know, the winter swells that roll into this part of Oahu’s North Shore, push up onto an extremely shallow reef, thus creating some of the best picture-perfect waves that form gorgeous rideable barrels that pro surfers dream about.
Take note that surfing Pipeline Hawaii poses serious bodily injury if you are caught in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Hundreds of surf boards are broken each year on the shallow reef, along with injuries and sometimes even the unthinkable…
Regardless, hundreds of surfers from around the world fly in to Oahu for their chance to surf the famous Banzai Pipeline. This is the home of the Pipeline Masters Surf Contest that is attended by the best and bravest surfesrs from all over the world.
Ehukai Beach Park is a beautiful long stretch of North Shore beach. During the winter, you can literally stand on the edge of the water, and watch the surfers in action just a short 40 yards into the ocean.
When summertime rolls around, and the waves go flat, you can experience some of the best snorkeling on Oahu! Just make sure to check in with the lifeguard to make sure it’s safe before entering the water.
