The Wildest of Weird Waves – Dylan Graves tackles a tidal rapid in the remote Kimberleys of West Australia

A 20-minute film from an exploratory surf mission to the Kimberley Region of Western Australia to a tidal rapid that has never been surfed.

Featuring Dylan Graves and Anthony Walsh, Guided by Jamie Hornblow. Filmed by Kane Overall and Mark Jones

And it’s not a spot for the faint hearted.

“I did some Googling, and came across some videos of Horizontal Falls,” explains Graves. “After seeing this, I thought surely one of these features had to be rideable. With my passion for weird waves, this place ended up on my list. But it always felt pretty farfetched that I’d actually make it here.

"That was until I ran into Anthony Walsh, who had in fact gotten visual evidence of a surfable wave in that area. That gave me a lot of confidence going into an exploratory mission like this. I should’ve known with Walshy’s big-wave background, that this was going to be a doozy.

“The wave we came to surf is a tidal rapid. A tidal rapid is when tides are so extreme, they turn still water into something that moves, and behaves like a river. And while this is a common experience, rapids are not. The seafloor needs to be shaped just right for rapids, and even waves, to form. But a surfable rapid? That’s even more rare. There’s actually very few tidal rapids on this planet that you can ride."

WATCH THE FULL 20 MINUTES HERE