The Mavericks Surf contest is being held today in North California about half mile off the coast of Pillar Point. This surfing competition was first started in 1999 and has been held every year since then. Mavericks surf contest 2010 started at 8am this morning, and its being streamed live using online webcasts at sites like ustream.tv

News came few hours ago there was an extreme wave during the event which caused several injuries to the spectators on a nearby wall. Our Sources revealed that about 8 people were taken to the hospital.

This wave was said to be about 5 foot high and stroked the viewers out of nowhere. Which is not surprising as it was expected that the strong westerly swell will bring waves up to 40 foot.

But this hasn’t brought down the excitement among the viewers or surfers; the completion is still running with several thousand spectators watching it live online. The finals will be held at 1:30 PM local time.

Some webcasts have reported to be slow due to server load. Here are some alternative webcast for the surfing contest you can watch the even on your mobile device using FloTv’s service at  www.flotv.com and the official Mavericks Surf webcast is aired at www.maverickssurf.com

The surfers are being embraced by 40 to 50 foot high waves, which is just a spectacular beginning for the mavericks surf 2010 contest.

Surfers are fighting for fame and a price whopping 150,000 American dollars. All participants will score on two best waves on the heat. The highest points will then be doubled and added to the next high score. Top three surfers from each heat will make place into the semifinals.

All major social networks like Facebook and Twitter are flooded with messages about the mavericks contest. Go check it out there is only 3 hours of event left!

Results for heat one:

The first heat of the contest was all about Darryl Virostko, Dave Wassell, Evan Slater, Ion Banner, Grant Baker and Tyler Smith.

Darryl from Santa Cruz is winner of first three contests, made an easy spot to the top followed by Grant Baker and Dave.

Darryl Virostko showed up many spectacular wipeouts, and thrilled the viewers on beach and the internet.

Results for heat two:

Santa Cruz surfers continued being the winner as Peter Mel and Anthony from Santa Cruz took the top two positions.

There are thousands of fans on the beach and thousands other watching the even live on internet. The official website received so many visitors in last few hours that it’s struggling to load any more. Here is the link for live webcast of mavericks contest: http://www.ustream.tv/maverickssurf