Surf's up - and it's very up indeed off Ireland's north and northwest coasts
One of the world's top big wave surfers believes he has found two locations off Ireland which could produce waves as high as 120 feet.
Al Mennie, who has surfed some of the biggest waves around the globe, said he is waiting for the perfect conditions to surf what he believes is the largest swell on earth.
"This is my mission. The good days are few and far between. 90 percent of the swells are unrideable and we'd reckon that only two days each year are rideable," he said.
"We've been out and ridden them. They weren't enormous but we are waiting for the right conditions."
Portrush, Count Antrim-based Mennie and Andrew Cotton, from Devon in England, refuse to disclose the precise locations of the waves due to the increasing number of inexperienced surfers trying to make a name for themselves on potentially killer waves.
But one wave is off the west coast of Donegal, and the other off County Antrim.
Mennie has surfed the Mavericks waves off California, the Aileen's beyond the Cliffs of Moher, and was part of a team took on 90-foot waves off Portugal a few weeks ago.
The wave off Donegal is reportedly near two small islands and is created by Atlantic swells traveling over a huge underwater mountain.
Adding to the danger of the wave off Antrim are deadly currents with tides moving at up to six or seven knots.
