On Christmas Eve, a surfer from Santa Cruz rode a wave at Mavericks that witnesses say was over 100 feet tall, which would set a world record. But how do you reliably measure a wave?

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Incredible footage captured the impressive feat and showed Slebir fearlessly riding the enormous wave as it swelled to more ...

Slebir told Surfer Today, “It felt different. When I turned at the bottom, it felt like I was being sucked back up the face. I knew it was a big wave, but the speed made it hard to grasp just ...

Everest every day of the week for 100 years, it never moves,” Bill Sharp, who has spent decades orchestrating the world’s most rigorous big wave surfing awards, told the Los Angeles Times.

If the wave's height is confirmed by Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, Slebir will hold the record for the largest wave surfed -- a title currently held by Sebastian Steudtner, who ...

Experienced surfer Lance Appleby’s board was discovered with a bite mark after the shark attack in South Australia A fisherman tried to warn surfers that a “big ... caught a wave and flipped ...

just shocked the surfing community by catching a colossal wave reaching 108-feet-tall. The exciting event unfolded at Mavericks in Northern California just two days before Christmas Day ...