Half way through his new 6-part series, British big wave hellman Andrew Cotton continues to recount some of the challenges he faced last winter at Nazaré, including that very first headline North Atlantic swell in November that nearly saw the end of Brazilian charger Maya Gabeira, with both Garrett McNamara and Carlos Burle also chipping in with their version of events.

And when Cotty runs into a little jetski trouble when his hook up fails him at the last moment, he heads out to the channel under his own steam to see if he can’t maybe scratch into an in-betweener!