At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir pointed his surfboard ...

A surfer in California might have beaten the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed on December 23, with one estimate placing it at 108 feet tall, substantially above the current 86-foot record ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Professional surfer Jojo Roper is always on the hunt for the “biggest, best” wave. That goal took the La Jolla resident to Northern California’s Mavericks surf break, famed for its huge waves. In the ...