The world’s best big-wave surfers are making frantic travel plans as Titans of Mavericks, widely regarded as the preeminent competition for oceanic daredevils, is set for Friday, organizers announced Tuesday.

The contest’s website has a call system ranging from yellow, meaning “there is currently no inbound swell,” to green, meaning “the event is on.” The system sat at red, one level below green, meaning the “potential is high for the event to run” for much of Tuesday morning.