What is the best surfing wipeout of the year? The five most incredible surf nightmares have been named and only the gnarliest will won the “Wipeout of the Year” at the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. Big wave surfing’s premier annual event picked Felipe Cesarano, Danny Griffith, Rodrigo Koxa, Mark Mathews and Garrett McNamara in scary moments captured at Teahupoo, Shipstern Bluff, The Right and Jaws, in the last months. Brazilians Felipe Cesarano and Rodrigo Koxa are well in the running for their horrific missteps at Teahupoo in Tahiti. Australian Mark Mathews is in for his dead-end wave at The Right in Western Australia. Local Danny Griffith is contending for his stumble at the base of a stair-stepping beast at Tasmania’s Shipstern Bluff and Hawaii’s Garrett McNamara is nominated for his imitation of a skipping stone down the face of a bomb at Jaws, on the north shore of Maui. Watch the “Wipeout of the Year” video, here .

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Wipeouts of the year have been named

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