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The 'fire hose spit' is not the 'lip' of the wave coming down on one, but it is when the air compressed inside a closing barrel spews salty foam out of the center of the tube.
(One of the best waves I ever saw was a perfect, ~9 foot face height 'A-frame' peak, which had practically identical left and right on it. As it peeled off, it spit three times in each direction! INSANE!
Also, one obvious exaggeration is 'spit like a fire hose'. On huge waves it can slightly sting, but is always a great feeling because it happens when you're coming out of a tube. But not from a wave park.
On that perfect day, (approximately December 1976), we couldn't surf it , however. No one would, no one could. Why? There were literally thousands of sharks in the water as far as the eye could see. There were so many sharks in the water that they were being crowded to the inside and dumped on the sand at our feet. (The little 3 foot babies.) (No, I am NOT exaggerating like the writer of the article is.)
As one got farther out, the sharks got way bigger. It was, (and is), in effect a natural warm-water shark nursery. If you've seen pictures of large schools of sharks from the air in florida, it was like that, but it was way bigger and far more crowded - it looked like a live bait tank - and covered an area about 3 - 5 square miles (conservative estimate.)
All Florida surfers see lots of sharks, and very rarely does one get out or stay out of the water for them. Not in this case. On that one day in 12/1976, I saw more sharks than I've seen the rest of my life put together. It was crazy. You may read it one day.
He's an explanation of why waves spit: [Link]
Here's a good, older video of waves spitting. [Link]
R.C.