Unseen footage has emerged showing the moment a drone camera gets wiped out by a truly monster wave while filming a professional surfer up close during one of the biggest swells of the season. <br /><br />In the previously unseen footage, filmed on January 18, 32-year-old German Sebastian Steudtner catches one of the biggest waves of the season at Praia do Norte beach near Nazaré, Portugal.<br /><br />Local drone camera team Máquina Voadora - Produções captured Steudtner attempting to ride the wave and his subsequent recovery up close, flying at very low altitude. <br /><br />So low in fact that the team almost lost their drone in the process. <br /><br />This swell originated from a North Atlantic storm and produced some of the biggest and heaviest waves the town has seen in years, reaching the 80ft mark on January 18. <br /><br />Praia do Norte beach has become famous for huge waves since Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set a then-record in 2011 for the largest wave ever surfed, when he rode a 78-foot wave.
