“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 ...

If you happen to be a fan of big-wave surfing, we recently launched Twenty Foot Plus — a new series, chronicling the world’s best big-wave surfers in the heaviest waves on Earth. In between giant ...

New York big-wave surfer Pete “Luigi” Shaw recently headed to Jaws to catch a healthy swell gracing the famous Maui reef. It was his sixth time surfing the wave, which he calls the best, most ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

Most days, 44-year-old Brazilian Michaela Fregonese juggles the same responsibilities as any parent: running her small travel agency, shuttling her son to and from soccer practice, and squeezing in a ...

Local Santa Cruz surfer Wilem Banks is heading to the 2025 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. The invitational is an extremely prestigious big wave surfing ...