Jeff Divine’s best photograph: a wipeout on surfing's greatest wave

‘Other surfers at Oahu kept away from Fred. His eyesight was so bad, they were scared he’d wipe them out too’This wave is known as the Pipeline. It breaks near the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii’s third largest island. It’s one of the pinnacles of surf culture. In the 1970s, when this shot was taken, it was probably the most radical wave in the world. We knew of nothing else like it.To catch a wave like this, you need to amass a wealth of knowledge from years on the oc