Carlos BURLE

Born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil and growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Burle has always had an intimate relationship with water and its movements. As a teenager, while all the other kids dreamed of becoming Pele, the soccer champion, Carlos preferred to go swimming, which is how he discovered his calling for surfing. Later, Carlos was key in creating and professionalizing tow-in surfing, a new type of surfing in which the surfer is towed by a jet ski to be able to get the necessary speed to ride huge waves that would otherwise be impossible to paddle into. In addition to his career as a big-wave surfer, Carlos Burle is also a free surfer who travels the world to compete in big-wave surfing contests and produce contents for his Youtube channel.

Today, at 48, Carlos has a number major titles under his belt. Back in 1998, he won the very first Big Wave Championship in Todos Santos, Mexico. In 2001, he rode a 70 foot wave at Mavericks, the biggest wave that had ever been surfed in the world, an incredible record at the time and for which he won a Billabong XXL Award. The ride even landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. With Eraldo Gueiros, he is the only Brazilian to ever have surfed waves in high seas, at Cortes Bank, 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. He is also the only Brazilian to have competed in the Eddie Aikau event, a prestigious big wave surfing event that is held at Waimea Bay on O'ahu, Hawaii and to which only the most respected 24 big wave surfers in the world are invited. In 2009/2010 he won his second WSL/BWT Big Wave Tour title and in October 2013, Carlos Burle surfed the biggest wave of his life in Nazaré (Portugal) towed by co-rider Pedro Scooby, riding a giant 30 meter (100 feet) wave, according to experts from the Oceanography Department of the Coimbra University in Portugal.