A 2020 satellite photo shows the immense power of 7-story waves crashing along the Portuguese coast. Later the same day, a ...

Along Portugal’s Atlantic rim, Nazaré has become shorthand for oceanic extremes, where 7‑story waves rise like moving ...

Waimea Bay continues to evolve. El Niño conditions in 1969 and 1983, for example, triggered massive winter swells that scoured even more sand from the beach. In early 1983, Waimea saw 20 days of ...

Few people have the surf skills, or the guts, needed to paddle out into the world’s biggest, heaviest waves. But for people who have always dreamed of getting up close to the bombing barrels in Tahiti ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

Update, Jan. 16, 3:36 p.m. The high surf advisory has been extended until 4 a.m. Saturday for west-facing shores of the Big ...