A 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer may have broken the world record to become the first person to ride a 100-foot wave.

"It’s been 20 years of surfing big waves and I’m finally ready to step ... to a [UNESCO] Champion of the Ocean and Youth. There’s been so many opportunities that came my way and I’m ...

Everest every day of the week for 100 years, it never moves,” Bill Sharp, who has spent decades orchestrating the world’s most rigorous big wave surfing awards, told the Los Angeles Times.

But a jaw-dropping photo of Slebir’s relatively tiny form racing down a collapsing mountain of ice-cold Pacific Ocean water has ... world’s most rigorous big wave surfing awards.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a warning for some beach counties in Oregon about so-called sneaker waves that ...

Photograph of Alessandro Slebir surfing on the potentially world record breaking wave taken by the Big Wave Challenge group. Photograph of Alessandro Slebir surfing on the potentially world record ...

23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean ... and an authority on big wave surfing. Sharp told SFGATE that ...

Big wave surfer, Maya Gabeira, has been a driving force in the surf world since the start of her professional career as a young teenager. In 2020, Gabeira set ...