Mavericks (surf spot)

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"Big Wave" conditions at Mavericks
Course of the wave formation in Mavericks

Mavericks is the name of a surf spot on the California coast.

location

Mavericks is located about 30 to 35 kilometers south of San Francisco on the American west coast in San Mateo County at the north end of Half Moon Bay .

The surf spot is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported (NOAA) marine reserve Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), one of 14 National Marine Sanctuaries . It is there in March 2009, a special regulation zone (MPWC zone 5), within which the use of jet skis ( English Motorized Personal Watercraft , MPWC) exceptionally, for rescue purposes in issuing a high surf warning (, warning of high surf ') allowed by the National Weather Service in the winter period from December to February.

Surname

As in 1961, the first time three surfers at this point for surfing came, they had a German shepherd named Maverick there. Since the wave had not yet had a name, the surfers decided to name it after the dog. Hence the original spelling was Maverick's Point . The more common variant is now just Mavericks , without an apostrophe .

waves

Due to the special shape of the seabed , the waves break particularly high here. After strong winter storms, the breakers here regularly reach heights of 7.5 meters and peak values ​​of 25 meters (so-called monster waves ). Mavericks is therefore a so-called big wave spot.

Accidents

Accidents have occurred frequently since at least 1994, and surfers have been killed in at least two cases. On December 23, 1994, surfer Mark Foo drowned in a wave over five meters high. During a surfing competition in 2010, a group of spectators was hit by a wave and washed into the cliff, injuring several of them. On March 18, 2011 there was another accident in which the professional bigwave surfer Sion Milosky drowned.

Trivia

Version 10.9 of Apple's macOS operating system, which was first presented on June 10, 2013 , was named OS X Mavericks after the surf spot .

The life of surfer Jay Moriarity (1978-2001), who became known for surfing in Mavericks, was processed in the biographical feature film Mavericks - Live Your Dream from 2012 by Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Motorized Personal Watercraft Use Map - Zone 5 . Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), accessed February 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Risk, Public Safety & Rescue Skis at Mavericks . MBNMS, accessed February 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ MBNMS Regulations for MPWC at Zone 5 (Mavericks) . MBNMS, accessed February 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Matt Warshaw: The Encyclopedia of Surfing , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005, p. 370, in English, preview in Google Books
  5. ↑ Douglas Booth: Surfing: The Ultimate Guide , ABC-CLIO, 2011, page 66, preview in Google Books
  6. ↑ Entry on Mavericks on Surfline / Surfing Encyclopedia
  7. ↑ Drew Kampion, Bruce Brown: Stoked. The history of surfing . Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8228-7296-2 . Page 178
  8. ↑ Surfer killed by giant wave near San Francisco. Axel Springer AG WELT ONLINE , March 18, 2011, accessed on September 22, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Apple announces OS X Mavericks. Retrieved January 28, 2014 .

Coordinates: 37 ° 29 ′ 33 "  N , 122 ° 29 ′ 56"  W.