Rodrigo Koxa

Rodrigo Koxa, born Rodrigo Augusto do Espírito Santo on 22 September 1979 in Jundiaí, is a Brazilian professional big wave surfer and extreme waterman. He began surfing in 1988 on the beaches of Guarujá. On 8 November 2017 he rode a wave of about 80 feet, roughly 24 metres, at Nazaré in Portugal, which supplanted the earlier estimate of 78 feet set in 2011 by his mentor Garrett McNamara. On 30 April 2018 the Big Wave Awards of the World Surf League gave him the Quiksilver XXL Biggest Wave prize for that ride, and the wave is recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest ever surfed in the league. Earlier, in August 2010, he surfed a wave of more than 60 feet in Chile, the largest then seen in South America.