Satellites have confirmed what mariners long suspected but could never fully prove: the open Pacific can spawn waves as tall as a ten‑story building, marching across entire ocean basins. The latest ...

Along Portugal’s Atlantic rim, Nazaré has become shorthand for oceanic extremes, where 7‑story waves rise like moving buildings and crash with enough force to reshape the water column below. Those ...

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...

A British surfer may have broken the world record for the biggest wave ridden by a woman. Laura Crane is awaiting confirmation on whether she surpassed the existing mark of 73.5ft (22.4m), held by ...

Hurricane Erin will bring “monster” waves to the East Coast as a powers through the Atlantic — even though its path is almost certain to stay far off shore. Erin — the first hurricane of the 2025 ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...