Billabong Pro Tahiti 2011 - Code Red Teahupoo Tow Session Highlights

TEAHUPO’O, Taiarapu/French Polynesia (Saturday, August 27, 2011) -- The surf world has been waiting and now the wait is over; some of the biggest, scariest waves seen at Tahiti’s infamous Teahupo’o have been tackled today by an elite crew of tow-surf specialists. Teahupo’o is the primary site of Event 5 on the 2011 ASP Men’s World Tour, the Billabong Pro presented by Air Tahiti Nui, which is midway through its 12 day waiting period, yet the world’s top rated surfers were denied the opportunity to compete in historic conditions after the French Government last night issued a 24 hour “Code Red“ advisory warning that prevents water craft from legal operation. But with the ’swell of the decade’ hitting the dangerous Teahupo’o reef, nothing was going to stop the tow-in aficionados who tracked the swell and flew in from all corners of the globe to ride it. With four-to-five metre waves slamming onto Teahupo’o’s dangerously shallow reef, surfing