surfing

Massive waves resulting from a storm in the north Pacific continued to pound the California coast, posing a danger to coastal residents — but creating a unique opportunity for big wave surfers, who braved the rough conditions to ride rare monsters.

Israel Barona, a rising Ecuadorian surfer and Olympic hopeful, has died at the age of 34 after suffering seizures. 

An Australian surfer accused of a naked, drunken rampage in Indonesia apologised for the incident Wednesday and said he is looking forward to being sent home and giving his mother a “big hug.”

Professional surfer Bethany Hamilton, has called out the World Surf League’s recent decision to allow men to compete against women.

A dead juvenile great white shark washed up on a Long Island shore hours before a teen surfer was attacked at a beach nearby.

Weather officials are warning beachgoers in Southern California this week that a massive southern swell is creating large waves that may tempt experienced surfers — but which also may sweep unsuspecting swimmers out to sea in rip currents.

A biological man who had been a prize-winning surfer as a man is now suddenly dominating women’s surfing competitions in Australia.

The San Francisco Fire Department rescued two surfers Saturday who had defied warnings and dared to ride a small but deadly incoming tsunami wave generated by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the South Pacific.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Surfers in El Salvador are planning to hold a “paddle out” Tuesday to remember Katherine Díaz Hernández, one of the country’s top surfers who was killed last week by a lightning bolt while surfing.

Police officers — dressed head-to-toe in hazmat suits — frogmarched a young woman up a beach in handcuffs.

Dozens of surfers flocked to Los Angeles County beaches as they opened, officially, on Wednesday morning for recreation.

Newsom has closed the beaches of Orange County. But it won’t last, and it can’t, because even in California, people will only put up with so much bullshit.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) kicked off the new year catching winter waves on Hampton Beach in New Hampshire on Wednesday — an act that coincides with her campaign surpassing its December fundraising goal, bringing in over $1 million in the final month of the year.

Leftist California Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to El Salvador this week to promote his progressive politics, but could only find common ground on Tuesday with El Salvador’s right-wing President-elect Nayib Bukele over surfing.

A lecturer from New Zealand is recently argued in an academic paper that surfers need to “redistribute” quality waves to “vulnerable surfers.”

A monster 80-foot wave approaching Portugal’s coast, gave a Brazilian surfer a world record on Saturday, reports note.

Female surfers wearing high-cut bikini bottoms have been assured by the sport’s administrators that their backsides won’t be broadcast to the world. At least not in revealing close-up.

Authorities took to the air via helicopter just off the coast of Orange County, California, on Thursday to warn surfers and paddleboarders to “exit the water calmly” because up to 25 great white sharks were seen plying the waters near the shore.

The annual international big wave surfing competition held at Maverick’s, near Half Moon Bay, California, was required to add a specific women’s heat to receive a permit from the California Coastal Commission this year.

On Wednesday, two gray whales played in the waves just off the Mission Beach coastline–and one photographer has the pictures to prove it.

A video of a nasty wipeout on a massive wave at California’s Mavericks off Half Moon Bay has been dubbed one of the worst surfing wipeouts ever caught on film.

Tatiana Weston-Webb (pictured) of Haiku burst on the surfing scene last year at 17, and at 23 Andrew Agcaoili of Oahu and his friends produce the incredible cliff diving footage covered earlier this month by the Huffington Post.

An international team of 66 surfers broke the Guinness World Record for “Most People Riding a Surfboard at Once” this past weekend in Huntington Beach, California–also known as “Surf City.”