At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped ...

On Christmas Eve, a surfer from Santa Cruz rode a wave at Mavericks that witnesses say was over 100 feet tall, which would set a world record. But how do you reliably measure a wave?

A California surfer may have set a new world record with a wave he caught last month, and the video of the feat looks like a ...

Extreme waves above 60 feet hit the California coast, particularly Mavericks, attracting surfers and onlookers despite safety ...

One of the biggest waves in the world broke at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay during a jaw-dropping swell this December. Big ...

Alessandro Slebir, a 23-year-old surfer from California, may have ridden his way into the history books by conquering what is ...

During the “Big Wave Challenge” held recently at Mavericks Beach, Alo Slebir rode a massive wave was possibly over 100 feet ...

Big-wave surfers capitalized on a massive swell pummeling California’s coast by riding some of the biggest waves ever at ...

The same storm that destroyed the Santa Cruz wharf may have also created the largest wave ever surfed — bringing the record to California.

This aerial view shows a surfer catching a wave at Mavericks Beach in Half Moon Bay, California, on December 30, 2023. Huge ...

Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir surfed a wave just two days before Christmas that could get him the best gift a surfer could ask for: a world record for surfing the world’s largest wave.

What came next may end up in the history books. Slebir, a 23-year-old Santa Cruz local, caught a towering wave at the Mavericks surf spot near Half Moon Bay that was recently estimated by ...