Neptune in Horta

Apparently on February 15, 1986, on a Saturday between noon and 4 pm, the Azores suffered the greatest storm of the century, with winds reaching velocities of nearly 250 km/h.

A local photographer, Jose Henrique Azevedo, took photographs before and after the storm. Waves reached heights of between 15 and 20 meters and when they broke, the spray went as high as 60 meters.

Two years later when Jose wished to show proof of this event to visiting yachtsmen, he printed two of the photos. Having done so, he discovered that at the moment when he had photographed a particular breaking wave it had taken on human form – and thus became known as Neptune at Horta.

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