There's few surfers whose exploits have truly reached the mainstream in profound, unprecedented ways. One is Garret McNamara and the smash hit HBO show, 100 Foot Wave. Before Nazaré became a global ...

As a friend on a jet ski towed Alo Slebir into a towering gray monster of a wave near Half Moon Bay on Dec. 23, the Santa Cruz surfer had no idea he might be riding into the record books. But a ...

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 ...

Ever since Greg Noll’s fabled ride at Makaha during the historic swell of 1969, measuring big waves has been a tricky business – controversial, in fact. And so, when Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rode a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rogue waves bigger than skyscrapers were once the stuff of myth, like the kraken, told over a goblet of ale by sailors in hushed ...