Waimea Bay continues to evolve. El Niño conditions in 1969 and 1983, for example, triggered massive winter swells that ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...

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 behemoth. “From ...

As a professional big wave surfer, charging down mountains of water that reach the size of an apartment block, Garrett McNamara doesn’t scare easily. Perhaps best known for taking on huge walls of ...

Few people have the surf skills, or the guts, needed to paddle out into the world’s biggest, heaviest waves. But for people who have always dreamed of getting up close to the bombing barrels in Tahiti ...

Big waves are making waves on the big stage. The HBO hit series “100 Foot Wave” earned two Creative Arts Emmy awards this week – nabbing the nod for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award ...