After 8 years of trying to secure permits, the Women’s Waimea Bay Championship’s (WWBC) contest director, Betty Depolito was taken aback:
It’s a miracle that they did [grant it]. It really is.
It’s been a long and difficult battle to obtain permission to run the event (the first two permits were received during time periods when the possibility of large swell was horribly unlikely) and the struggle isn’t over yet.
The holding period is from Oct. 1st to Nov. 21st which leaves the contest directors, Depolito and Wrenna Delgado limited time to obtain the all necessary funding to run the event. Delgado couldn’t believe it, usually you are given over a year’s notice.