The Billabong Odyssey is about going where no one has ever gone before. A thousand people have climbed Mt. Everest, but how many have ridden an eighty-foot wave? Organizer Bill Sharp applies that rationale in combining the world's best big wave surfers, jet-powered watercraft, cutting-edge weather tracking, and wave forecasting to chase down the biggest swells the earth's oceans have to offer. Technology reveals these locations, allows surfers to reach them and then to ride bigger waves than anyone before, the ultimate man-against-the-sea adventure.