Tucked away along California’s Central Coast, Montaña de Oro State Park remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets – a coastal wonderland that somehow escapes the attention it so richly deserves.

A Hong Kong surfing coach claimed to be riding waves during Typhoon Wipha on Sunday, while the company he worked for advertised lessons with the tag line “the bigger the wave, the better it gets”.

Dog surfing competition draws big crowds to Galveston beach The event featured first-timers, returning champions, and a beach full of fans.

Once a quiet fishing village, Nazaré, Portugal, is home to some of the world's largest rideable waves, reaching up to 100 feet. Learn more about this destination, what causes these massive waves ...

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Big waves are expected for the final day of the National Scholastic Surfing Association’s national championships on Thursday, July 3, a contest that has brought the best young surfers in the ...

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.

The threat of those waves is not baseless: big-wave waterman Mark Foo drowned at California’s Mavericks in 1994, while Hawaii local Todd Chesser died surfing a huge swell on an outer reef off ...

“What we do as women surfing big waves, we’re not like men, our bodies are designed differently. We’re more prone to injury, especially on the knees, because we don’t have the muscles.