“I swear, videos never do it justice how gnarly a wave like that is,” said Torrey Meister, Hawaii’s favorite bull-wrangler and big-wave duel-threat. Torrey had a good look at the start of Albee ...

It started slow and tedious, got weird in the middle, then concluded with screaming, high-fives and hugs. No, that’s not a reference to an annual company holiday party. I’m talking about the first day ...

It started with a high school marching band and ended with an 88-year-old surf legend handing out one of the marquee awards of the night. A lot happened in between acts at the 2025 Big Wave Challenge, ...

“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...

Most days, 44-year-old Brazilian Michaela Fregonese juggles the same responsibilities as any parent: running her small travel agency, shuttling her son to and from soccer practice, and squeezing in a ...