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Yes indeed, offshore canyons can focus wave energy, creating much larger breaking waves along particular portions of beaches. Blacks Beach in La Jolla is one famous example, and was studied extensively with the Nearshore Canyon Experiment: http://www.oc.nps.edu/wavelab/ncex.html
Nazare Canyon in Portugal is also responsible for creating perhaps the largest waves ever surfed: http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/nazare
Here's an NPR article on record-breaking surf at Nazare:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/31/170753700/portugals-monster-the-mechanics-of-a-massive-wave