Ever since Greg Noll’s fabled ride at Makaha during the historic swell of 1969, measuring big waves has been a tricky business – controversial, in fact. And so, when Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rode a ...

After watching an episode of 100 Foot Wave, the HBO series featuring big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, you'll likely be left with goosebumps—it's anxiety-inducing to watch humans tumble down monstrous ...

HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, which premiered earlier this month, follows a group of big wave riders as they travel the globe hunting for the planet's biggest swells The docuseries is about "so much more" than ...

The last time I spoke with Joe Lewis, executive producer of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning show 100 Foot Wave, I mused: What happens if someone surfs the hundred-footer? Does the show end? Cut to black like ...

On December 19th, 2025, Brazilian big wave charger Rodrigo Koxa rode what some are calling a 29.15-meter (95.64-foot wave) at ...

The Emmy-winning docuseries 100 Foot Wave returns to HBO with five new episodes for us to watch, fascinated, as professional surfers dance on the crumbling rim of a monstrous wall of water. Directed ...

Spoilers follow for the third season of 100 Foot Wave, which concluded on HBO on Thursday, May 29. Throughout 100 Foot Wave’s third season, the surfers we’ve watched for years tackling the ocean and ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...

One of the most remarkable aspects of HBO’s Emmy-winning 100 Foot Wave docuseries on big-wave surfing is its showcasing of the stakes and the struggles involved. The surfers here are risking their ...

The big wave season kicked off with a bang in the Atlantic with a crazy run of swell leading up to swell of the season and the Tudor Nazaré Invitational. All of this action, along with the progression ...

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. “From ...