Big wave surfing captures imaginations. And photographing giant waves is an animal all its own. A writer shares what she had ...

Waimea Bay continues to evolve. El Niño conditions in 1969 and 1983, for example, triggered massive winter swells that ...

A high surf advisory is in effect for west-facing shores of the Big Island until 6 p.m. Friday (Jan. 16) as an extra-large, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THE SURFER IS typically depicted as a solitary figure. One person flowing with the force of nature, ...

Russell Bierke is a slab connoisseur, charging the type of heavy water you’d file somewhere between the “nightmare” and “only in dreams” chamber of the mind. The Australian burst onto the scene in ...

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 ...

The ocean is waking up again with back-to-back extra large swells hitting north and west-facing shores across most of the ...

Updated, Jan. 13, 3:50 p.m.: The National Weather Service has canceled the high surf advisory for the west-facing shores of ...

Oftentimes, in the big wave realm, massive surf is likened to double black diamond peaks. The analogy makes sense – both have ...