Carlos BURLE

Born in Recife, Brazil, and now living in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Burle has always had a close, personal relationship with water and its movements. As a teenager, while other youngsters dreamed of being Pele, the soccer champion, he preferred to go swimming. It was then that he discovered his true vocation: surfing. Carlos contributed to the professionalization and creation of a new discipline, "tow-in", in which the surfer is towed by a jet ski into the wave, to improve his speed and enable him to ride bigger waves that he couldn't catch with a paddle. In addition to his career as a giant wave surfer, Carlos Burle is also a freesurfer, traveling around the world to take part in big-wave surfing competitions and producing content for his TV show and Youtube channel.

Today, at the age of 48, Carlos has won prestigious surfing titles. In 1998, he won the first Big Waves Paddling World Championship in Todos Santos, Mexico. In 2001, Carlos surfed the world's biggest wave at Mavericks, California, at a height of 22 meters (70 feet), an incredible record at the time. It even earned him a mention in the Guinness Book of Records and the Big World Surfing award at the Billabong XXL Award the same year. He is the only Brazilian, with his partner Eraldo Gueiros, to have surfed open-ocean waves at Cortes Bank, 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. He's also the only Brazilian to have taken part in the Eddie Aikau, the benchmark big wave surfing event held in Waimea Bay on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, where only 24 of the most respected surfers in the big surf community are invited. During the 2009/2010 season he won his^2nd WSL / BWT - Big Waves World Tour title. And in October 2013, Carlos Burle surfs the biggest wave of his life at Nazareth (Portugal) in a pair with teammate Pedro Scooby, 30 metres (100 feet) high according to experts from the Oceanography Department of the University of Coimbra in Portugal.