Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 22, 2013

Twenty-nine hundred takes must be tiresome. As for hanging ten for about four hours and 41 miles,… uh… I’m speechless; no comment.

The near-death-experience thing is probably able to be faked. In essence I mean the claim that the experience occurred, not the actual closeness to death.

The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is a 77.1-kilometre (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. It is only 48 miles long and there are several locks and a lake in it. Therefore I fail to see how surfing 41 miles in it is possible.

Gary Saavedra has entered the Guinness Book of World Records. The surfer from Panama surfed for three hours and 55 minutes in 41.3-mile wave created by a power boat.Surfer FROM Panama, he did it in the Pacific Ocean.

@Alexikakos Filming, depending on the movie, can go on anywhere from a few months to a few years. And the takes don’t have to be consecutive because they may do a certain number of takes of the same scene one day and at the end of the day when the director looks at the dailies he may not like what he sees and decides to retake the next day. This can go on throughout filming. It most likely lengthens the length of the shoot. Also, later scenes may make the particular scene out of place unless reshot to conform. There are a lot of different reasons to have to reshoot. Still its hard to fathom 2900 remakes on one scene.

And after all that, it was just a mediocre movie.

Yeah, the story about surfing a wave through the Panama Canal sounds like a real crock of you know what. I don’t believe it.

Jackie Chan’s pretty good isn’t he?!!!!…I think his first movie in America was the first Cannonball Run (1981) right??!!!!!!!

I knew it was impossible to do IN the canal, so I looked it up. It was done in the PACIFIC ocean.He ended up at the southern end (pacific side) of the canal.

I’m calling bullshit on the surfing the Panama Canal. Not possible