Just like the rest of the surfing world, I’m going to try not to react to way-too-early world record claims until the claims start landing a little closer to reality. In the meantime, I’ll just double ...

Western Europe is preparing to be battered by storm Ingrid, the largest in a series of systems moving across the North Atlantic. Big wave surfer Nic von Rupp is eyeing the forecast for Nazaré, saying ...

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's few surfers whose exploits have truly reached the mainstream in profound, unprecedented ways. One is Garret McNamara and ...

Garrett McNamara, 55, is an extreme surfer who in 2011 set a world record in Nazaré, Portugal, for the largest wave surfed, at 78 feet. He co-stars in the second season of the HBO documentary series ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- One of the world's best surfers was swallowed up by a massive El Nino-boosted wave off the coast of Northern California. He called it one of the "craziest" wipeouts of his ...

The Billabong Odyssey project, introduced in summer 2001, had one objective: to find and surf a 100-foot wave, record it, and give a half-million bucks to the first team to do it. It was a three-year ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...