Guinness record set for most surfers riding wave
June 20, 2015
Long-time Huntington Beach surfer Gary Sahagen had a prediction about how the world record attempt to get the most people riding one wave would go down.
“It’s either going to be spectacular, or a spectacle,” Sahagen said, before joining 66 other surfers crammed onto a 42-foot board on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier.
Turns out, it was a lot of both.
An estimated 5,000 people watched from the sand and Huntington Beach pier Saturday morning as Surf City claimed the Guinness World Record for the most people riding a wave on a single board, shattering the previous record set in Queensland, Australia about a decade ago, when 47 surfers rode a wave for 10 seconds.
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Guinness record set for most surfers riding wave - The Orange County Register