| Banzai Pipeline is the world's most spectacular tubular | | | | Services and amenities: lifeguards, restrooms, |
| wave found in the North Shore of Oahu. It is the | | | | showers, parking, picnic areas and tables, phones |
| tube that every expert surfer of shooting that when | | | | 5 unique things about Ehukai Beach Park |
| surfers compete for the Vans Triple Crown of | | | | - Banzai Pipeline got its name in 1961 when surfing |
| Surfing, they'd patiently wait for days and weeks for | | | | movie producer Bruce Brown stopped at the |
| the sea to curl into the world's most challenging surf | | | | yet-unnamed surf site up Ehukai Beach Park. |
| reef break. | | | | Coincidentally, a pipeline was being constructed on |
| To view the waves, locals and tourists have to go to | | | | nearby Kamehameha Highway. California surfer Mike |
| the home of the Banzai Pipeline: the Ehukai Beach | | | | Diffenderfer who was with Brown at the time |
| Park. Ehukai Beach Park is located on Ke Nui Road off | | | | suggested to name the wave Pipeline. The name was |
| Kamehameha Highway in front of the Sunset | | | | first used in Brown's fourth movie, Surfing Hollow |
| Elementary School. Ehukai, which means "reddish | | | | Days. Since the beach that fronted the pipeline was |
| tinged water" in Hawaiian, is a white sand beach is | | | | then known as Banzai Beach, Banzai was appended |
| fronted by an acre of green grass and shady trees. | | | | to Pipeline; hence the compound name Banzai Pipeline. |
| Because of its world-famous , the 1.2 acre Ehukai | | | | - Ehukai Beach Park is the home of the world's |
| Beach Park gets hordes of visitors especially during | | | | hardest and deadliest surf break, the Banzai Pipeline. |
| winter months. | | | | More people (surfers and even photographers) have |
| Spectators, journalists, and photographers crowd the | | | | higher statistics of death or serious injury than in any |
| beach as well to watch the surfers ride the world's | | | | other surf spot. |
| most dangerous waves. | | | | - Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, the world's greatest |
| The beach's pounding waves are for experts only; | | | | and most challenging surfing competition, is held here. |
| inexperienced surfers and swimmers have to wait for | | | | - Ehukai Beach Park covers three areas: the Ehukai |
| spring and summer waves to enjoy the waves over | | | | Beach, Banzai, and Pipeline. |
| the sandbar. Even in summer, however, the waves | | | | - The sub-plot of the Hollywood film "Blue Crush" |
| breaking near the shore and the rip currents are | | | | starring Kate Bosworth was about shooting the |
| something that swimmers have to negotiate. | | | | Pipeline. |