The waiting period of the Pipe Masters has begun and the spotlight has intensified on the world's most famous wave. 

Matt Dunbar rattled off these shots on the first day of the waiting period.

For the most part surfers are absent in Found At Sea. Where a surfer is in frame they're either a reference point for scale or they're subsumed within the scene. In Ray's world the surfer must share equal billing with the wave, the sky, the light...

"There are six-dozen chambers of death between here and another Masters victory for Slater. He will need to bend or break a few laws physics to make it happen. More is required now, at age 42, than at any other time in his career."

After a decade surfing some of the most remote waves on Earth, Captain Andrew Rigby is weighing anchor and heading for shore. Swellnet speaks to the Captain - soon to be ex-Captain - of the PNG Explorer.

This bloke can surf alright.

We're set to see one of the largest and deepest low pressure systems since last winter. In fact this one is shaping up to be bigger than the Hercules XXL swell seen at the start of this year.