Scooby’s friend and fellow Brazilian, Lucas 'Chumbo' Chianca, rode in on a jet ski to pick him up before the next monster set rolled in. The seething spume nipped him from behind and sent him bombing into the fray in a violent back flop.

There was a 70-foot mountain of water avalanching behind him.

“I was anxious and preparing myself for the Carnival, but I had no doubt once I saw the forecast,” Scooby said.īy February 28, Scooby was tearing down the tide at 45 miles an hour on his rattling surfboard. Scooby was on a flight to Portugal the next morning. Surf forecasters predicted it would be the biggest swell of the year. Pedro “Scooby” Vianna, a professional surfer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was at Carnival on February 26 with his wife when he heard about Ewan-a big storm building off the coast of Greenland and moving toward Europe. The sport of big-wave surfing can sometimes require dropping everything and traveling around the world at a moment’s notice. The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature's fury and save themselves from tsunami terror.In late February, the best big wave surfers in the world caught wind of a storm headed for Nazaré, Portugal-a surfing destination only recently recognized for producing the world’s most awesome and powerful waves. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. Giant tsunami waves-three or four stories high-can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn't escape fast enough. Then the earthquake comes-starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. He'd never flown before, and he's never seen the Pacific Ocean.

Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. When an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami?

Escaping the big wave