Why does it even matter if this wave is bigger than the other? Doing it for the feeling or for the score? It goes same as with art. It is precisely those who don't see the full picture that tend to describe fragments, cutting it into pieces. That's how we got to be surrounded by meaningless noise expressing nothing. Commentators everywhere.
I don't need to know how high this wave was and if any new record was achieved. It is just amazing that people dare to do it and show to us in the same time the magnificence of nature. Kudos to these superhumans. We are all superhumans every single time we conquer fear.