Loading ...As long as you like to surf and hitch a ride with the power of nature that’s all that counts. Even 5 ft can be dangerous depending on why. Florida as bull sharks, Hawaii Tiger and coral, Calif especially in North California in winter has hypothermia and where the big waves come and occasional sharks like great white with warmings here and there about it that get ignored but they are aware but the waves outweigh the risks that may travel south. One Hawaiian surfer warned me years back of places on the north shore a bit out that there was coral just about 3 feet below you.
A funny story about a friend who got caught up with that coral while in RR Army VN He made everything that’s dangerous sound funny. Waves knocked him around and pushing him down into the coral and he used his feet to stop him from being slammed into it. Over and over again and can’t remember all he said.He finally gets out and goes to his hotel and changes but his feet are so cut up so he wrapped shirts around them. Then tried to go to a restaurant to get something to eat and they kicked him out and thought he was a bum and wouldn’t give him a break or didn’t believe him. He couldn’t enter because he had no shoes. That was enough for me to stay away from it.