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For years now, billionaire tech CEO Mark Zuckerberg has flirted with the world of surfing, an infatuation mostly in the wake surfing realm, and occasionally involving a hydrofoil setup. Judging by the numerous clips he’s posted to his preferred platform, Instagram, he sticks to freshwater lakes for his surfing dalliance – like Lake Tahoe, where he owns a vacation house (compound) with his wife.

But now, it appears Zuck has finally graduated to saltwater and real ocean waves.

Still on the foil, and still towed in rather than paddling, Zuck posted a video of himself on what is likely the biggest real ocean wave he’s ever ridden. The caption he chose for the clip? “Send it.”

Zuck (a goofyfooter) soars down the face of an unbreaking, well-overhead liquid peak. In fact, it looks like he was whipped into a couple of ‘em. It’s likely somewhere in Hawaii, where the Facebook founder also has a home (more on that below). And the surf world cheered him on in the comments:

“Hell yeah. Charging, bro.” – Zeke Lau

“Looks like a blast.” – Jamie O’Brien

“We on for Jaws next week?” – Kai Lenny

“Bomb.” – Italo Ferreira

Recently, Zuck appeared on Bloomberg’s series “The Circuit w/ Emily Chang,” where he wake surfed on Lake Tahoe, in between talking with the show’s host. One of the main topics of discussion was his sprawling property on Kauai, and the reported underground “doomsday bunker.”

Zuck clarified: “No, I think that’s just like a little shelter. It’s a basement. We have the basic house we built, and I have an office because I work out there, and then there’s just a bunch of storage space. Or it’s whatever you wanna call it. It’s a hurricane shelter. It got blown out of proportion as if the whole ranch was some kind of doomsday bunker, which is just not true.”

Maybe it’s a storage space for his foil quiver? And maybe, this is just the beginning of Zuckerberg’s adult-learner induction into the world of big-ish wave hydrofoiling. Someone call Laird.

This article first appeared on SURFER and was syndicated with permission.

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