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 ...

Rogue waves bigger than skyscrapers were once the stuff of myth, like the kraken, told over a goblet of ale by sailors in hushed tones within dimly-lit, smoky bars. They were once believed to be ...

The Billabong Odyssey project, introduced in summer 2001, had one objective: to find and surf a 100-foot wave, record it, and give a half-million bucks to the first team to do it. It was a three-year ...

Western Europe is preparing to be battered by storm Ingrid, the largest in a series of systems moving across the North Atlantic. Big wave surfer Nic von Rupp is eyeing the forecast for Nazaré, saying ...

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,” ...