About Jaws
Jaws, known in Hawaiian as Pe'ahi, is a big-wave surf spot on the north shore of Maui, Hawaii, along the coast east of Pa'ia near the town of Ha'ikū. The waves break over a reef well out from a cliffed shoreline, and spectators generally watch from the clifftop above. It became widely known in the 1990s, when surfers began using jet skis to tow each other into waves far larger than they could catch by paddling, and it is often described as one of the largest waves surfed anywhere. The biggest days typically come in the northern winter, most often from around December to March, when swells travel down from storms in the North Pacific. Professional big-wave contests have been held here in some years. It is generally surfed only by big-wave specialists, and access to the clifftop is limited.
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