Currently, the Guinness World Record for the “ largest wave surfed (unlimited) by a female” is held by retired Brazilian big ...

Big waves, in surfing, are the pinnacle of the sport. But big waves outside of surfing are something else entirely. There are waves on record – some not even at typical ocean surf spots – that are ...

There’s a chance that a sauna builder in Santa Cruz County could have a world record to his name this fall. Wilem Banks is a soft-spoken woodworker from Santa Cruz who, in December, paddled into the ...

Some folks are saying the recent swell in Hawaii was overhyped, “rigged” even. Kelly Slater hopped on the conspiracy theory bandwagon, joining Albee Layer with, “one of the main conspiracies I’ve been ...

Yes, we know pulling out the measuring tape for big waves is a difficult and sometimes controversial endeavor. But in light of the recent deluge of swell coming from the North Pacific over the last ...

In November 2020, a truly extraordinary rogue wave was recorded off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Measuring 17.6 meters (58 feet) in height, the wave was captured by a MarineLabs buoy, making ...

All eyes were on Waimea Bay. It was January 22nd, 2023, and the world’s most prestigious surf contest – the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational – was called on for the first time in seven years, and ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration detected the loudest gravitational wave ever observed, confirming Stephen Hawking’s area theorem on black holes. The event, GW250114, ...

In March 2022, temperatures near the eastern coast of Antarctica spiked 70 degrees Fahrenheit above normal – making it the most intense recorded heat wave to occur anywhere on Earth, according to a ...