When winter in Portugal rolls around, all eyes turn to Nazaré. Portugual has many waves, but Nazaré has a certain something ...

A 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer may have broken the world record to become the first person to ride a 100-foot wave.

Big wave surfer, Maya Gabeira, has been a driving force in the surf world since the start of her professional career as a young teenager. In 2020, Gabeira set ...

Big wave surfer ... Record for the largest wave surfed (unlimited) by a woman, with the wave reaching 73.5 feet. The record was set in Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, an area known for ...

SFGATE reported that Santa Cruz, California resident Alessandro “Alo” Slebir had possibly broken the Guinness World Record by surfing a 108-foot wave in December at the Mavericks surfing location at ...

Portugal. Slebir told SFGATE Monday that he’s not dwelling on the wave’s exact height. “Regardless of the number, it really doesn’t matter how big the wave was to me,” Slebir said.

The business of measuring big waves ... that Alo’s wave measured 108 feet. And that would smash the current record held by Sebastian Steudtner and his 86-footer at Nazaré, Portugal in 2020.

Brazil doesn’t have many solid, big waves, and none as towering as Nazaré. Perhaps that’s why surfers seeking to tap more power make their way across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal.

Big wave surfers caught bombs on December 23 ... who caught a 86-footer at Nazare in Portugal in 2020. Surfers said the swell at Mavericks created wave faces were critically steep and sets were ...

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).