A record-breaking 17.6-meter rogue wave off British Columbia highlights the importance of wind dynamics in wave formation ...

Inside the “Draupner Wave” – an historically (and abnormally) large wave, which smashed into an offshore oil platform in ...

Veteran big wave surfer Alo Slebir was in the right place on the right day when he found himself riding a wave calculated to be 108 feet high at Northern California’s Mavericks ...

Big Wave Surfing. 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 ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world.What followed was just that ...

The threat of those waves is not baseless: big-wave waterman Mark Foo drowned at California’s Mavericks in 1994, while Hawaii local Todd Chesser died surfing a huge swell on an outer reef off ...

Santa Cruz big-wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rides a wave at Mavericks that was estimated to be 108 feet, which would be a world record, on Dec. 23.