In the past five or so years, two spots have dominated the discussion in big-wave surfing: Jaws and Nazaré. The first has been the site of multiple groundbreaking Big Wave Tour events (most of which ...

If you happen to be a fan of big-wave surfing, we recently launched Twenty Foot Plus — a new series, chronicling the world’s best big-wave surfers in the heaviest waves on Earth. In between giant ...

New York big-wave surfer Pete “Luigi” Shaw recently headed to Jaws to catch a healthy swell gracing the famous Maui reef. It was his sixth time surfing the wave, which he calls the best, most ...

“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...

“I swear, videos never do it justice how gnarly a wave like that is,” said Torrey Meister, Hawaii’s favorite bull-wrangler and big-wave duel-threat. Torrey had a good look at the start of Albee ...

Most days, 44-year-old Brazilian Michaela Fregonese juggles the same responsibilities as any parent: running her small travel agency, shuttling her son to and from soccer practice, and squeezing in a ...