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Southern California is getting slammed by a massive south swell, bringing the biggest summer surf in years and urgent warnings.

Surfers caught waves as tall as 50 feet high Sunday in Hawaii, producing epic rides and wipeouts during the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. More than 20,000 spectators showed up at Waimea Bay for ...

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 ...

Surfers and bodyboarders in Newport Beach, California, ock to The Wedge, a shark fin-like wave that breaks near the town’s harbor. For the past six years, the wave and its riders have been the focus ...

The surf is up, and up, and way up! Hurricane Erin won’t make landfall, but the storm surge will bring monster waves off the coast into the weekend all the way to Nova Scotia. Ride at your own risk.

On December 23 2024, 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir rode a wave at Mavericks surf break that has been estimated by some at 108 feet tall, a potential new world record. With the end of 2024 ...

Bianca Valenti shares her journey as a professional big wave surfer in San Francisco, conquering icy waters, Mavericks, and ...

A powerful south swell rolled into Southern California on Tuesday, bringing some of the biggest summer surf the region has seen in years and prompting urgent warnings from lifeguards and weather ...