{"id":470231,"date":"2026-06-10T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470231\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:06:12","slug":"jamie-obrien-feasted-on-mexican-tubes-during-the-biggest-south-swell-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470231\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie O\u2019Brien Feasted on Mexican Tubes During the \u2018Biggest South Swell of the Decade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jamie O\u2019Brien decided to skip the south swell of the summer at home and jet off to Mexico. Photo: Jamie O\u2019Brien\/\/screenshot<\/p>\n

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As Californians are currently getting their turn<\/a> to ride what many are calling one of the most impressive south swells in years, Jamie O\u2019Brien flew south to meet the pulse at a punishing Mexican beachbreak. We\u2019re being careful to use definitive superlatives, but O\u2019Brien went ahead and made the claim, calling it the \u201cbiggest south swell of the decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien and friends towed into as many stand-up tubes as they wanted at what appears to be the beach that molded Championship Tour surfer Al Cleland. However, their tube-fest took a turn when one of the trucks used to launch Jet Skis was gobbled up by the ocean.<\/p>\n

Despite hours of attempts to pull the truck out of the ocean, they couldn\u2019t get enough traction on loose sand to yank the Toyota from the Pacific Ocean\u2019s currents. O\u2019Brien posted a crowdfunder<\/a> to support the surf photographer\/Jet Ski operation to whom the truck belonged.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say epic session when something bad happens like that,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cSuper grateful to get great waves here, but I feel like now it\u2019s time to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCrazy day. We\u2019re psyching still. We\u2019re thankful no one got hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie O\u2019Brien decided to skip the south swell of the summer at home and jet off to Mexico.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[237777,6820,111,139,69,237778,213],"class_list":["post-470231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-jet-ski","tag-mexico","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pascuales","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}