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There is no photograph of this wave, Ken Bradshaw's "biggest wave ever surfed". He was towed into this rogue wave at Log Cabins, Oahu, on 1-28-98. It is generally accepted as 80 feet or taller. Ken, who is 6'1", calls it 85 feet. This is my proposal of how an 80+ footer looks from the water angle. This is based on a famous photo by Hank of Ken riding a 65-footer later the same day, which has been mistaken for the wave of the day. Officially, the Billabong XXL has judged the biggest wave ever surfed as Rodrigo Koxa at Nazare, Portugal, on 11-08-2017 on an 80-footer because of superior photographic evidence (but weak video evidence IMO). Judge for yourself, search YouTube for "Rodrigo Koxa Biggest Wave". It looked like a drone following the crest of the wave, but it is actually a bird than flew along with Rodrigo.

See the actual video by Bill Ballard of Ken's famous wave on YouTube, search "Ken Bradshaw January 28". The wave starts at 20 seconds into the video:

These are true-to-scale paintings of the biggest waves ever surfed in high definition. Some are imaginary reconstructions of actual events, such as Ken at Log Cabins on "Biggest Wednesday", and Greg Noll at Makaha. There were no photos taken of their historic rides. Others are from sketches I made from viral videos and photos. All surfer and photographer names are available on request. The Mike Parsons wave painting is based on the original photograph by Robert Brown but with a unique view of the trough. There IS NO photograph of Ken Bradshaw's biggest wave. Hank's famous photo featured on Ken Bradshaw's web site was a smaller 65-footer Ken rode later the same day. Greg Noll's wave is mythical, with the scale based on Larry...