We remember famed big wave surfer Márcio Freire who died surfing in the Portuguese town of Nazaré last week. Remembering big wave surfer Marcio Freire JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Maybe the answer is because ...

Veteran Brazilian surfer Marcio Freire died on Thursday while surfing giant waves in Nazaré, located on the central coast of Portugal, local authorities said. Freire’s death was confirmed by the Port ...

Veteran surfer Márcio Freire died Thursday in Portugal in a surfing accident. He was 47. The Portuguese Surfing Federation confirmed Freire's death in a statement. Translated to English, the ...

Tributes are being paid after veteran Brazilian surfer Marcio Freire died while practising on the giant waves in Nazare on the central coast of Portugal on Thursday. Support staff on jet-skis managed ...

Veteran Brazilian surfer Marcio Freire, featured in the 2016 “Mad Dogs” documentary about conquering a giant wave in Hawaii, died Thursday in a surfing accident off the coast of Portugal, authorities ...

Surfing superstar “Mad Dog” Marcio Freire died Thursday at the age of 47 while surfing in the waters off Portugal. The Brazilian was tow-in surfing on the giant waves of Nazare when he fell into the ...

Famed Brazilian surfer Márcio Freire died Thursday while riding waves off the central coast of Portugal, officials said. Freire, 47, — who appeared with two other pioneering Brazilian surfers in “Mad ...

Well, that sport lost an icon last week. The famed Brazilian surfer Marcio Freire died tow-in surfing in the Portuguese town of Nazare. An underwater canyon there that is three miles deep generates ...

"The Portuguese Surfing Federation regrets the tragic death, in Nazaré, of Brazilian surfer Márcio Freire," the federation said in a statement Thursday Natasha Dye is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE ...

Maybe the answer is because it was there. The question - why would big-wave surfers paddle or get towed into the ocean on jet skis in the hopes of surfing waves that are sometimes many stories high?