Surfers are nominated by other big-wave surfers that witnessed their ... I actually fell on the first wave of that set, so I had a front-row view to that monster. He is so patient and so prepared.

Nazaré is a true monster – the wave it’s claimed is most likely to break the magical one-hundred-foot-high barrier that has long been the Holy Grail of big wave ... in front of a cliff ...

For the first time since 2016, the conditions looked right for the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational ... Eddie’s brother, said in front of Waimea Bay the morning of Jan. 10, a Tuesday.

It's 100 miles out to sea, with no landmark in sight, surrounded by nothing but ocean, birds, seals and sharks. And when the ...

A big-wave surfer at Mavericks is essentially an ... who has done documentary work and co-wrote a book about it, has a front-row seat. A 2007 U.S. Geological Survey report found that Mavericks ...

With big wave season in both the Atlantic and Pacific rolling, the waiting period for the Nazare Big Wave Challenge is underway. Europe’s premier big-wave venue, world records for the biggest ...

But what creates waves the size of office buildings, including the ones big-wave surfers covet and coastal dwellers fear? In a word, land. A wave approaching a shoreline meets shallower and ...

Big wave surfing is one of the most extreme and awe-inspiring action sports in the world. These surfers not only push the sport to its outer limits but also carve paths through infamy by pushing ...

Fittingly, the birth of big wave surfing happened on the same Hawaiian island where surfing itself originated: Oahu. For centuries, Hawaiians of all classes surfed together on the smaller waves of ...

As a professional big wave surfer, charging down mountains of water that reach the size of an apartment block, Garrett McNamara doesn’t scare easily. Perhaps best known for taking on huge walls ...