It often happens, when such shocking events as Sunday's waves at Cloudbreak, that the headlines of the media and the surfers themselves readily blurt out the "biggest and best in history." Where in history does this swell stop? And, most especially, where does Ramón's wave stop?

It's not easy to determine these kinds of things. For example, when Ramón came out of the water after surfing that wave, he told his Instagram followers on camera that he "believed" it was the best wave of his life and later he was convinced that it really was. That Ramón, who surfed the Eddie wave in 2009 and the giant swell at Cloudbreak in 2012, and who lives in Punta de Lobos permanently surfing incredible waves, says this is no small thing.

There are a couple of historical moments that can be used as an example to compare and determine how epic Ramón's wave was: One is that wave of the 2012 CT swell, the one that Mark Healey scraped past and whose photo made the front pages of every site imaginable (a session that Ramón was part of, taking one of the best of the day).

Another wave was the impressive bomb that Nathan Fletcher surfed at Teahupoo in the Code Red Swell also in 2012, it was surfed tow in and ended up winning the surf of the year at the XXL Awards.

Both moments went down in surfing history and will never be forgotten.

According to Mark Healey, after the wave passed, pieces of coral that had been there for thousands of years came to the surface, and the surfers began to be bitten by sea lice. What the Hawaiian wanted to explain was that the wave was a “unicorn” because it had been able to move the ancient reef in a way that had never been seen before.

Ramón’s wave looks like the same one Healey talks about, maybe a little smaller, but with the huge difference that the Chilean is high, surfing one of the biggest barrels in history. Precisely, the Chilean told Surfline: “I waited about two hours for that one. Kohl Christensen and I were talking about waiting for one like the one Healey got under. And we did. That wave sucked in so much, all I could do was point my nose down.”

Then, it is worth comparing it with Fletcher's wave because although it is less perfect, short and violent (it is another place, another wave shape, it ends up knocking the surfer down), the size of the tube and the wave is smaller. But Ramón's bomb has a bit of a Chopes flavor, vertically below sea level; again: bigger and longer.

They are different waves, it is true, but it is good to compare a mutant left surfed tow in to establish that Ramón's wave was historic.

It will take a while for the adrenaline to settle down, for the footage to be reviewed from all angles, but given the above, Ramon's wave has undoubtedly gone down in history, and it will be very difficult for anyone to take away the Big Wave Awards' Ride of the Year this time around. Especially since, as Slater put it, what happened yesterday was like when man stepped on the moon.

The best, biggest and most perfect wave ever surfed at Cloudbreak, yes. There is no doubt about that.

Surf of the year? Probably too.

The wave of the century? It is very difficult to answer that question. What remains as the main argument in this situation is that there is no doubt that the Chilean wave entered history and will always be considered as a point of comparison from now on, both in Cloudbreak and anywhere else in the world.

Some opinions on social media from some wise surfers:
-Kelly Slater: “Wow, that’s all I can say (…) A billion people should have seen what happened today. It was like people who manage to go to the moon… and tomorrow they say it never happened.

-Gabriel Villarán called it the surf of the century.

-Miguel Tudela asked himself: The best wave ever surfed? And he pointed out with hashtags that it is the wave of the year and the tube of the year.