The Big Wave World Tour has announced the beginning of the waiting period for three contests in the Northern Hemisphere. The three venues now in waiting are the Punta Galea Challenge (Basque Country, Spain), the Mavericks Invitational (Half Moon Bay, California) and the Nelscott Reef Big Wave Classic (Oregon, USA). Starting on November 1st, 2013, all three events have a waiting period that extends through March 31st, 2014, in order to allow contest organizers to monitor and examine huge ocean storms in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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Northern Hemisphere ready for the Big Wave World Tour challenges

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