Over the weekend, one of the biggest swells in recent memory hit surfing’s home of the world’s largest liquid mountains: Nazaré, Portugal. It was so big, so unwieldly, that some even questioned the ...

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

A monster wave off Portugal has produced a world record for a Brazilian surfer. The World Surf League says Rodrigo Koxa has ridden the biggest wave ever surfed. At the group's Big Wave Awards in Santa ...

By comparison, the World Record for biggest wave ever surfed is currently held by Sebastian Steudtner, a colossal 93.73 feet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Crane is still coming down from a high -- the highest wave she's ever surfed. And just maybe, the highest any woman has.

River wave surfing, the niche offshoot of traditional surfing, is surprisingly steeped in history – dating back to the seventies, and spawning out of the unlikely location of Munich, Germany, river ...

A Santa Cruz man may ride into the history books for taking on what could be the world’s largest wave ever surfed. 23-year-old Alo Slebir caught the estimated 108-foot wave earlier this month near ...

Currently, the Guinness World Record for the “ largest wave surfed (unlimited) by a female” is held by retired Brazilian big wave surfer, Maya Gabeira, from a 2020 ride also at Nazaré, which was ...