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,” ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Garrett McNamara, 55, is an extreme surfer who in 2011 set a world record in Nazaré, Portugal, for the largest wave surfed, at 78 feet. He co-stars in the second season of the HBO documentary series ...

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 ...