Frenchman Laurent Pujol, riding epic swells across the world on a custom Jet Ski, has one of the most singular jobs in cinematography. By Gary Baum Senior Writer “Big-wave surfing is life-and-death,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At an awards ceremony Saturday night, 24-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir will finally find out if he set a new world record while riding the towering wave at Mavericks last winter — ...

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 ...

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 ...

A little more than 12 years ago, legendary boat captain/ big-wave photographer Robert Brown did an extremely surgical strike to Cortes Bank, 100 miles off the California coast, with Mike Parsons, Brad ...

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