How long do you have to hold your breath at Nazaré?

In other words, you've got to be able to hold your breath for between 90 and 240 seconds. In some situations, you will be fortunate to get a breath before a giant lip land on top of your fragile body. For Nazaré, a surfer needs to be physically (and mentally) apt to being held underwater for a long and stressful time.



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The Nazaré Canyon is an undersea canyon just off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal, in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest submarine canyon in Europe, reaching depths of about 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) deep and a length of about 230 kilometres (140 mi). The Nazaré Canyon off the coast of Portugal.

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When conditions are calm offshore, you can actually have a very normal beach day at Nazaré. But just off the coast, the ocean floor is anything but normal. It's home to the Nazaré Canyon, an underwater trench that is 140 miles (230 kilometers) long and up to 16,000 feet (4,877 meters) deep.

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Nazaré is most famous for its tow waves — you gotta do what you gotta do when the waves hit a certain size — but people paddle there, too.

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The last wave, RIP Márcio Freire On January 5, 2023, Brazilian surfer Márcio Freire died after surfing a big wave in Nazaré.

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Nazaré is sand bottom, so there's more turbulence than reef waves.

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