Eddie coverage drew 1.2 million live stream views
DENNIS ODA / FEB. 25
John John Florence gets good air on a huge wave during round 2, heat 3 of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau big wave surfing contest.
The World Surf League videos from Thursday’s Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational have been viewed more than 13 million times on Facebook; the live stream had 1.2 million views the day of the event; and viewers watched 750,000 hours of live coverage, the WSL said today.
The Eddie “was the biggest single day in big wave surfing history,” the WSL said in a news release.
More than 1,000 international broadcast and digital news outlets covered the event, the WSL said.
Jed Pearson, the World Surf League’s executive vice president for content and programming, said, “We are extremely fortunate that mother nature cooperated by producing waves with heights of 60-feet in some cases, and the competitors — including Eddie’s younger brother Clyde — attacked the waves with incredible passion and fearlessness.”
The WSL said there were 25,000 who viewed the event in person at Waimea Bay.
Nine action cameras plus two slow-motion cameras were used in the coverage. More than 75 broadcast personnel, including in-the-water reporters, were involved in the coverage.
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Maybe 25,000 people drove by the contest but there certainly was not 25,000 people there at the bay. . .
And not one cent of taxpayer money was used to draw that audience.
Abolish the HTA.
Clyde and his relatives thank you for filling his coffers with blood money.