Maverick’s, Jaws, Nazaré…these are some faces on big wave surfing’s Mount Rushmore, the perennial spots, which every year, serve up some of the most unfathomably massive surf. But there’s a quiet ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there ever was a Mount Rushmore of big wave surf spots, Jaws (or Pe’ahi) on Maui would be a giant, rock-sculpted bust on that ...
Big waves are making waves on the big stage. The HBO hit series “100 Foot Wave” earned two Creative Arts Emmy awards this week – nabbing the nod for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award ...
Sebastian Steudtner holds the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed. At 26.21 meters (86 feet), it is equivalent to surfing an eight-story building. The record was set in the picturesque ...
The North Shore's Shawn Briley is a Pipeline barrel-riding legend. Briley, or "Briles" as friends call him, is notorious for going all-in at huge Pipeline, or anywhere he surfed, in the '90s. He's ...
(CNN) — Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot ...
There is a popular, Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary television series, “100 Foot Wave,” just beginning its third season of production. It’s about the personal lives of big wave surfers and their ...
Walter Hoffman, an early-era big wave charger and board builder who helped kick-start the surf clothing industry, died Tuesday, July 9, at age 92. “Surfing has lost one of its true pioneers as Walter ...
HARRY BAMFORTH IN NAZARE: Daily Mail Sport has been invited to big wave surfing's most famous spot to take a peek behind the swell, attending a two-day boot camp with Cotton.
The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational was held for just the eleventh time since its founding in 1984. Landon McNamara, a local of Oahu’s North Shore, won this year’s event. By Talya Minsberg When the ...
Frenchman Laurent Pujol, riding epic swells across the world on a custom Jet Ski, has one of the most singular jobs in cinematography. By Gary Baum Senior Writer “Big-wave surfing is life-and-death,” ...
The humble charger drowned while surfing near Cape St George Lighthouse at Jervis Bay. Medics attempted to revive him, but ...