Southern California is getting slammed by a massive south swell, bringing the biggest summer surf in years and urgent warnings.

Surfers and bodyboarders in Newport Beach, California, ock to The Wedge, a shark fin-like wave that breaks near the town’s harbor. For the past six years, the wave and its riders have been the focus ...

The Inertia, multimedia site about surfing, kicks off a new documentary series with an in-depth exploration of big wave surfing. Sine Qua Non is a portrait of champion Greg Long, who has spent years ...

A monster wave crashed clean over a residential oceanfront building in Keauhou, Hawaii during a giant swell. According to Storyful, the Keauhou-Kona Surf and Racquet Condominium complex was also hit ...

The biggest waves in the world, obviously, occur in the ocean. From the spots we know and love (maybe more so fear) the most, like, Nazaré in Portugal, Jaws on Maui, and Maverick’s in California. But ...

Twenty-five years ago, the first iteration of the Big Wave Challenge presented by Aquamar went down in Orange County. A quarter century later, it has returned. Celebrating the most heroic efforts of ...

Maverick’s, Jaws, Nazaré…these are some faces on big wave surfing’s Mount Rushmore, the perennial spots, which every year, serve up some of the most unfathomably massive surf. But there’s a quiet ...

Along Portugal’s Atlantic rim, Nazaré has become shorthand for oceanic extremes, where 7‑story waves rise like moving buildings and crash with enough force to reshape the water column below. Those ...

California’s coastline is dotted with world-class surf breaks — from the iconic Malibu that helped fuel the culture and popularity of the sport to the monster waves at Mavericks in Northern California ...