‘Scarier’ than predicted: Heavy conditions at Bells Beach cause carnage
Friday's heavy conditions at Bells Beach – which got bigger as the day progressed and turned ‘‘triple overhead’’ by the end of proceedings – caused carnage.
Fans even had to keep their wits about them – and keep their feet out of the whitewater – on what seemed a rapidly shrinking beach that was off limits by late in the afternoon.The crowd favourite on the beach, when it was still safe to sit there, was undoubtedly 47-year-old, 11-time world champion Kelly Slater, who progressed to the quarter-finals – where he will face Callinan – after surfing on two borrowed boards.
Slater is aiming to become the first surfer to win at Bells five times, moving ahead of fellow four-time winners Mick Fanning and Tom Curren. Waves had surfers being washed over the Winkipop button and put in a situation that even Hawaiian John John Florence – a renowned big-wave surfer raised on Waimea shore breaks – called ‘‘scary’’.
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