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Standing at the edge of a verdant cliff on a cold, fall morning in Southern Chile, local tube hound Ramón Navarro couldn’t believe his eyes. There was a long-period southwest swell in the water and the sun had just started to illuminate the lively, frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean below him. A biting offshore wind was grooming a reeling left-hand point into a gassed-up Mundaka lookalike. To the best of his knowledge, this wave had never been surfed before, most likely because it had never looked like this before.

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