Tahitian big-wave surfer Tikanui Smith prefers to paddle his surfboard into monster waves, rather than be towed behind a jet ski.

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 ...

“I didn’t grow up by the ocean. I didn’t have rich parents to travel around with me as a kid, I didn’t start surfing until I was an adult, I’m not from Hawaii, Australia, the US – I’m not even from ...

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...