Cover photo: Justin Bulolo

Peruvian Sebastian Correa is one of the best surfers in the world when the sea gets big and heavy anywhere in the world.

It is worth highlighting some moments that do justice to what has been said: His wave in Nias last year, which was, for many, the heaviest swell in the history of the place; if it was not the best of the day, it hit the mark.

There were some of the best heavy wave surfers on the planet in the water that day and a few of them left the water without surfing a good one.

That bomb in Aints that was a finalist in the 2016-2017 winter wave, one of the 10 best waves of the season and one of the best surfed there. It was in Hawaii, in the middle of the season. Correa went to one that nobody wanted and got a barrel.

Several sessions in Indo (some appear here), waves in Pico Alto, tubes in Cabo Blanco, that giant session in El Buey, the day after the end of the QS in 2015 and a long etcetera.

In the following paragraphs he himself describes four of his waves one by one.

Aints (Between Backdoor/Off the Wall) – January 2017

It was January 17, 2017, there was a QS 1000 at Sunset that day and my brother was racing. I remember that I had surfed Pipe early in the day and I almost got a bomb on the left and in the end I didn't get out of the tube. Afterwards I went to be a caddy.

I got back to Pipe late like 4 and the crowd was horrible and after a while I said to myself: “I'm going to Off the Wall”, and in the middle of the way, in the reef section called Aints, this perfect wave came in.

I just turned around and walked away, hahaha. The tube was huge and perfect. I remember that I could only see white at one point because of the sprays. There were two and then I left. There I heard the whole beach screaming and applauding that it's very difficult for that to happen, hahaha.

I couldn't believe it came out of that tube. Big and deep + 2 sprays.

Nias – July 25, 2018

It was July 25th, 2018, one of the best days of my life. Well, this story begins a week before, I was at home in Peru, and I saw that the swells in Indo were not stopping and just like that my friends (Martin Jeri and Ezra Sitt) went to Nias to run the previous swell, they told me that they were great and I couldn't stay in Peru.

I bought my ticket for the biggest swell in Indo in a long time. I went straight to Nias. That day the waves were huge, I woke up very excited, the hawas were in the same place where I was staying and from 5 am everyone was moving boards and getting ready. Most of them were wearing vests. I didn't have anything and I went in bareback and after a good moment at the point I got one that I didn't get out of and coming back from that one I was confident to catch the next one.

I see this double lower than everyone else and I paddle like crazy, I did the drop and in the middle my feet came together, I don't know how I got down. But when I did it I felt the lip next to me. I did the pull in.

It was a nasty tube, white and choppy, but I managed to hold on and get out. Matt Bromley (the swell charger) was right there when I got out of the tube, raising his hands. It was a very special moment. One of the best waves of my life and one of the best trips.

It was one of the heaviest moments of my life, it was a huge day with too much energy concentrated in one place, the thing about the boat that got lost was that day.

Desert Point, Indonesia – July 2018

It was July 29, 2018, one of the biggest days of running at Desert Point. The whole day was going on and then the tide came in, Pato Texteira and Bruno Santos were there with a jet ski and Joaquin and I decided to go in. We both won with some bombs, I got this giant one that looked like Growers but it's at Desert Point. It was an incredible tube, solid!

Desert in August 2018

It was August 5, 2018, one day after the Lombok earthquake. The night before we were eating with the Peruvian delegation in a place about 20 minutes from Desert and the earthquake hit us. It was too “heavy”, rocks fell from the roof, then we went to Desert Hill and everyone was there (locals + surfers) around 2-3 am.

Then we decided to go down to surf with the whole car ready for anything, to go up the hill, but luckily nothing happened.

That was one of the best days in Desert and there was almost no one there. It was epic but I went to the reef and got a little bump on my face, luckily nothing. After a few hours I was feeling better and the waves were epic.

I got in and got some tube hits, this one was special, the first one was grabbing the rail and the second one I let go of the rail and I was slamming the whole time, it was too deep.