“Did Nic von Rupp just quietly break the world record for biggest wave surfed?” Tudor Watches, one of von Rupp’s sponsors, asked without a hint of objectivity in a recent Instagram post.

Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself.

The wave is too quick. He gets swallowed up in the teeth of the aptly named Jaws. No completion. Biggest wipeout at Jaws ever? Maybe. When speaking to SURFER about the session a month ago ...

Clark, who witnessed Slebir’s feat, knew he’d seen a once-in-a-lifetime ride. "I think I can probably say that it’s the biggest wave I’ve ever seen ridden out there,” he says. That evening, when ...

Maya Gabreira is one of the most accomplished female big wave surfers in history. She overcame a life-threatening injury to shatter the Guinness World Record for the largest wave surfed by a woman ...

A Scottish teenager has become the youngest British woman to surf the world’s biggest waves in Nazare. Robyn Larg, from Tiree, made history when she surfed a near-15ft wave on February 15. She hit the ...

began texting him. Like any self-respecting big wave surfer, the 24-year-old Slebir and his pals constantly watched the data captured by buoys hundreds of miles out in the Pacific Ocean that could ...

Big wave surfing is one of the most extreme and awe-inspiring action sports in the world. These surfers not only push the sport to its outer limits but also carve paths through infamy by pushing ...

A massive 12.34-metre wave was recorded off Main Beach on the Gold Coast overnight as Tropical Cyclone Alfred's path began to ...

"I think I can probably say that it’s the biggest wave I’ve ever seen ridden out there,” he says. That evening, when friends began texting an exhausted and drained Slebir photos of his ride ...

making Slebir a contender to break the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed. Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner holds the record, 93.73 feet, for his epic ride at Nazaré, Portugal ...