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Matthew Hartman was at the point of proposing to his girlfriend Lis, when a giant wave rushed in from the ocean and swept the couple completely off their feet.

They were completely engulfed and ended up back on Laguna Beach, where Lis, happy but wet, accepted Matthew Hartman’s offer. Fortunately, the whole thing was caught on video.

Matthew Hartman had started the romantic interlude on November 21, by playing Lis a song he had written.

He then shocked his fiancée by removing a ring from his pocket and dropping to one knee on a rocky outcrop on the Californian shoreline.

Small waves had previously been lapping at the edge of the picture but these are replaced by a huge breaker which takes both Lis and Matthew by complete surprise.

After the enormous wave has washed the couple back to shore, Matthew Hartman quickly checks the engagement ring is still safe on his hand before helping his life partner out of the foam.

As Lis wrote on the YouTube posting of their dramatic proposal video: “Soaking wet, I quickly jumped up and said YES!”

The ring was saved, neither person was injured and Matthew Hartman got the answer he hoped for.

Matthew Hartman was at the point of proposing to his girlfriend Lis, when a giant wave rushed in from the ocean and swept the couple completely off their feet

Matthew Hartman was at the point of proposing to his girlfriend Lis, when a giant wave rushed in from the ocean and swept the couple completely off their feet

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Garrett McNamara has ridden what may be the highest wave ever caught by a surfer, reportedly 100 ft (30 m) high.

Garrett McNamara surfed the wave on Tuesday off the coast of Portugal, in the same spot where he surfed the current world-record wave of 78 ft (24 m) in November 2011.

Experts will now have to certify the new record.

The giant wave formed above an underwater canyon famous for being the world’s biggest wave generator.

“You are just going so fast,” Garrett McNamara told ABC television.

“It’s really, really similar to snowboarding on giant mountains.

“And you’re just chattering, flying down this bumpy, bumpy mountain. Your brain is getting rattled. Your whole body is getting rattled.”

He said he was relieved to have avoided a rocky section of the coast.

Garrett McNamara began surfing at 11 and turned professional six years later.

Garrett McNamara has ridden what may be the highest wave ever caught by a surfer, reportedly 100 ft high

Garrett McNamara has ridden what may be the highest wave ever caught by a surfer, reportedly 100 ft high

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