* Sebastian Steudtner’s 93.73-foot wave: This is the current largest wave ever surfed, ridden by German big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner in Nazaré, Portugal in 2024. * Rodrigo Koxa’s 80-foot wave: This was the previous world record, set in 2017, also at Nazaré, Portugal. It’...
“I knew it was big when I paddled into it," Enever told the WSL after the record was announced. "When I took off, I looked down, and I knew it was definitely the biggest wave I've ever caught. I knew it was the wave of my life, the whole way it all came together and the...
The idea is to set a standard formula for measuring big wave rides across the world's most extreme surf breaks. The professional circuit teamed with researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Southern California to produce a document that allows judges to compare ...
Nazaré, Portugal, attracts surfers and observers from around the world for its world-class surfing waves, and last November Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa set the record for surfing the biggest-wave ever, at 80 feet. The same day, a British surfer broke his back on a similar wave. The silv...
Video Player It looks like you may have surfed one of the biggest waves ever towed into here in Nazare or possibly the biggest wave rode anywhere. Tell us about this wave and what was going on in your mind while you were dropping into this mountain. What were u thinking and feeling?
When everything falls into place, which is only about 15 to 30 times a year, Maverick’s produces “the most radical wave on the planet,” said surfer Jeff Clark, who was in the water with Foo the day he died. “It is what surfing is all about.” ...