Once a quiet fishing village, Nazaré, Portugal, is home to some of the world's largest rideable waves, reaching up to 100 feet. Learn more about this destination, what causes these massive waves, and ...

German surfers are "bummed" they have lost one of the world's largest inland waves. A city dredging project in Munich made the wave disappear.

O ne great promise of the wild world of wave pools is the increased amount of time actually riding a wave. Unless you’re ...

In one month, the 2025 Big Wave Challenge will name its heavy-water winners from around the globe. Like the past two iterations of the Big Wave Challenge, there are nine categories with three surfers ...

It was a muggy July day in Santa Cruz and life could not have been more mundane for Alessandro “Alo” Slebir. The 24-year-old was pounding wooden concrete forms into a missing section of sidewalk. Cars ...

Spoiler alert: I don’t know who rode the biggest wave of the 2024-2025 Big Wave Challenge window. That’s being kept under lock and key until the award show live from the Lido Theater in Newport Beach ...

Graves’ record comes off the heels of another obscure surfing feat, accomplished at yet another novelty wave, this one in ...

A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel survived amidst a storm of biblical proportions and unfathomably ...

Nearly 100-foot-tall waves have been recorded off the coast of Nazaré. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years of experience editing and writing for both brands and online ...