Download Rip Curl app and find Mick Fanning's gorgeous African secret!
Had a fun couple of days last week. At a whim, I’d thrown a line out (a thousand bucks) for the coordinates to Mick Fanning’s secret wave The Snake, the one that blew minds, briefly at least for this is the era of short attention spans, in February last year.
Last week, Rip Curl loosed another clip of The Snake. This time Mick went back with Rip Curl teammate Tyler Wright. It was pretty ordinary compared to the earlier reveal, but enough to re-spike my curiosity.
Within three minutes of the reward being posted a reader called with the wave’s location. Hoo-ee etc. Who would’ve thought etc. I promised. I ain’t gonna tell nobody. When conditions bloom, and it’s a southern hemisphere winter sorta spot so it might be done for the year, I’m going to drag one pal into a pretty part of Africa for a little warm-water tube wrangling.
Well. Maybe we’re not going to be so alone.
As another reader has since pointed out, all the data…the exact coordinates… are on the Rip Curl GPS watch app. All you gotta do is follow Mick Fanning, jump onto Google maps and away you go.
Interestingly, on the trip there this year, on June 26, Mick had two thirty minutes sessions for a total of twelve waves. Top speed was twenty-six clicks and the longest wave 155 metres. Long way to travel for an hour in the juice.
Question: how long’s the data gonna stay on the app?
A day?
An…hour?
Go!
https://www.google.com.au/m…
It’s in Ghana. You can see it on @worldsurfscans on instagram
Fuck rip curl and the search and fuck it up.
By now we know, this is Greg Webbers secret wavepool, he has made it so that it looks like Africa by giving 10 year old workers (who also double as glassers) prop ar15’s and imported the sand from Dubai.
i thought someone posted the other day – Nigerian coast no?
It’s a rouse, like the moon landing, shot by Stanley kubricks nephew in a secret facility in Taiwan with imported black people and sand. You can tell the background is just a Wille e coyote-esque painting. Like a fake tunnel.
fuck me fooled again – I just checked coordinates deleted – conspiracy?
either that or the north Koreans that made the watch monitor Derek. I prefer to believe it’s a fake wave built by Weber on a soundstage. WE NEVER WENT TO THE SNAKE! OR MOON!
I’ll tell you when we eventually meet in person.
Sounds like you guys are either gonna fight or screw?
Who knows?
Maybe go surfing?
We live within about 15 minutes drive if each other, but only traded pithy bullshit here on BG.
It must be a conspiracy.
Hillary Clinton is involved.
I think Amazon’s having a clearance sale on tin-foil hats. You might wish to invest.
Perhaps a tin-foil wettie as well. Good look.
that’s right we can perhaps one day trade pithy bullshit in the surf!!!
perfect as I spent few hrs trolling google earth looking at prospects
Just geocache it and leave a big turd
Name checks out.
It was there at 12:22, and now I’ve checked at 12:48 and it’s gone.
But the coords are still listed.
Could still just be a ruse.
Edit: I refreshed the app and they disappeared too. Luckily I screen grabbed them first!
Efficient!
I was lucky and saw your post. Got in there quick sticks. Pretty cool app actually. I’m impressed.
Now that itch in the back of my mind is sated.
Useless knowledge to me really.
Ok first of all they say “this ain’t no wavepool” that means it IS a pool. Second, If Alex Jones doesn’t have to make sense neither do i!
stop it! Alex Jones makes perfect sense. I just bought his pills and started yelling to make more money.
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haha brazzo actress renata sorrah last week: “- 50y of acting carrer, i walk out on the strret, kid call me ‘meme lady’!”
No mate, it’s there: Keta, Ghana.
https://www.google.com.au/m…
Historically the area was called the Danish Gold Coast. Mick should have felt right at home. Nearby is Fort Prinzenstein, an old Slavery fort. In 2011 Ghana had the fastest growing economy in the world. Now the secrets out, I suspect there will be a few surf camps and or resorts springing up. I hope the local Ghanaians can benefit.
As of 7:41 pm California time (9/7/18) the data is gone, gone gone. And the “Secret Spots” surfed back in 2015 have the background map images erased.
Amazing.
Gotta love human short-
Sightedness