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

Surfers caught waves as tall as 50 feet high Sunday in Hawaii, producing epic rides and wipeouts during the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. More than 20,000 spectators showed up at Waimea Bay ...

Rogue waves are large and unpredictable ocean phenomena that pose dangers to smaller vessels and offshore structures, such as ...

Simpson-Kane said he knew the forecast: some of the biggest waves Maui’s North Shore had seen in years. Despite the risks, this could have been his only chance to ride a wave this big.

Just with the size of these waves. I don’t think I’ve been out here on a day like this where it is this big.” Some of the surfers say the waves hit 60 feet during high tide.

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 behemoth.

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 ...

On January 18, 2018, Gabeira successfully surfed a sixty-eight-foot (nearly twenty-one meters) wave at Nazaré becoming the first female big-wave surfer recognized with a Guinness World Record.

The greatest big wave surfers of all time have pushed the sport’s limits through innovation and fearless rides. Laird Hamilton pioneered tow-in surfing, Garrett McNamara set records at Nazaré ...