Jamie Mitchell is in a premier league of big-wave chargers who closely monitor global weather and swell forecasts, ready, willing, and more than able to drop everything and go wherever necessary to catch and ride the largest, most powerful, majestic, and dangerous waves in the world.

Garrett McNamara isn't your typical surfer. In 2003 he competed in the Tow Surfing World Cup at Jaws in terrifying 70-foot surf, which even he admits was scary. He won and took home the $70,000 purse and the world title. In that same year, he caught a death-defying 20-foot Hawaiian barrel at Jaws.