Basque Country hydrofoil hellman, Matt Etxebarne Aguirregomezkorta, goes big during a historic California swell.

Big wave surfing is one of the ultimate thrills, where surfers conquer massive walls of water that defy comprehension. The unquenchable thirst for adrenaline and pursuit of world records is a ...

They also created some of the biggest and best surf to ever fire across one of the world’s most renowned big wave spots, Maverick’s near Half Moon Bay. Surfers that dared to try and tame this ...

On December 22, 2024, while the surf world’s collective eye was fixed on Waimea Bay during the 2024 Eddie Aikau Big-Wave Invitational, lensman Fred Pompermayer was in the channel at Jaws ...

Photos and videos of Slebir expertly navigating ... the contest’s organizer and an authority on big wave surfing. Sharp told SFGATE that while he thought Quirarte’s 108-foot estimation was ...

When he was 14 he become the youngest person to surf the 9m (30ft) waves that crash into the coast at Mallaghmore in south west Ireland. Ben later went on to ride another monster of between 18m ...

This was the same. Why did you chose big wave surfing? When I started surfing, I had to wait for the last [wave] of the series, the biggest because there were many surfers, all very advanced (I ...