A new study suggests that Vini Dos Santos rode a nearly 100-foot wave, breaking the current world record, at Nazaré, Portugal in 2022.

At an awards ceremony Saturday night, 24-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir will finally find out if he set a new world record while riding the towering wave at Mavericks last winter — ...

Hawaiian Garrett McNamara put Nazare on the map in 2011 when he set a then world record for the biggest wave ever surfed at 78 feet (23.77 metres). Brazilian Rodrigo Koxa bettered McNamara's mark in ...

Spoiler alert: I don’t know who rode the biggest wave of the 2024-2025 Big Wave Challenge window. That’s being kept under lock and key until the award show live from the Lido Theater in Newport Beach ...

Twenty-five years ago, the first iteration of the Big Wave Challenge presented by Aquamar went down in Orange County. A quarter century later, it has returned. Celebrating the most heroic efforts of ...

Via satellite monitoring, scientists detect unprecedented swell in the Pacific Ocean from 2024 storm, which brought huge ...