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If one were to submit the script of the 2023 Eddie win to a Hollywood studio, the feedback underlined in red may describe it as too fantastical. A storybook tale so fanciful that even Disney would ...

For instance, there’s the river wave, which when it turns on, can be one of the sketchiest, biggest freshwater standing waves on earth. Then, there’s the infamous Waimea Bay shorebreak.

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 ...

Of all the world’s novelty river waves, none are as popular, as well-documented, as the one on the North Shore of Oahu’s Waimea Bay. Perhaps it’s because the wave breaks dead center in the ...