Watch: Remarkable Run Of South Swell Delivers 20-Footers To Mexpipe

If you you live anywhere in the 11 million mile triangle that connects Tahiti, Patagonia, and San Francisco, you’ve likely spent hours this week analyzing, observing, ogling at, and probably panicking about the chain of energy that has been marauding across the South Pacific.

“I’d say the storm door is definitely open,” said Mark Sponsler of Storm Surf this week.

After reporting that open ocean buoys reached peak reading of 50 feet, Surfline has described the current South Pacific swell train as a ‘generational run’ — which began in Tahiti last week and will continue to make landfall over the following week or two in the Americas.

(And no, this South Pacific run actually isn’t exactly correlated with the possibly impending El Nino. More on that in a Premium story this coming week.)

As I write this, I’m sweating through my mattress in muggy Oaxacan heat — chasing footage of Greg Long, Tom Lowe, Ian Walsh, and more for a film we’re making with Patagonia on the development of big wave inflation.

Yesterday morning, both Tom and Greg pulled their vests on Zicatela straighthanders.

“I haven’t pulled that thing in years mate,” grinned Tom with a twinkle in his eye as he jogged up the cobbled street with a freshly shaved mullet.

As for the impact of the impending pulse in Oaxaca?

Thanks to Amanda and Boris, the first tropical hurricanes of the season who have begun forming in the Eastern Pacific, much of Central America looks to be receiving a windswell + wind-blast combo in conjunction with the long period swell event.

“I don’t wanna talk about it,” huffed Puerto Escondido based filmmaker Edwin Morales as we ate dinner last night. “That hurricane definitely screwed things up.”

“It’s a real shame,” said Greg Long. “It could’ve been some of the biggest Puerto ever, and now with this hurricane in the mix it’ll probably be unsurfable. I think some people are a little relieved they don’t have to surf 50-foot Puerto though,” he chuckled.

Click above to watch the most recent run of swell through the lens of local filmmaker Edwin Morales.