Newport Beach surf history looks back at the biggest waves to ever strike The Wedge – from Hurricane Marie to behemoths of the 1970s.

“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...

Via satellite monitoring, scientists detect unprecedented swell in the Pacific Ocean from 2024 storm, which brought huge waves to Hawaii and California.

A newly released study claims it dethroned the biggest-recorded wave ridden by Sebastian Steudtner at Nazaré in 2020. With new methodology, they say a wave ridden by Brazilian Vini dos Santos in 2022 ...

It's no secret that Brazilians have been making a mark in the surf world for years, a lá, the Brazilian Storm. But to think it only applies to competitive surfing like the Qualifying Series (QS) - ...

The swell two days before Christmas that gave Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir the ride of his life on a towering wave at Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay was officially the biggest wave ridden ...

In Tim Burnham’s 2016 documentary, Dirty Old Wedge, the history, controversy, and glory of Southern California’s premier mutant shorebreak wave is explored. There’s no other spot on earth like The ...