João Macedo is a big-wave surfer. A renowned one, too, with multiple World Surf League nominations. To be a surfer of his calibre requires a healthy dose of optimism. Innovative equipment. A strategic ...

Tow surfing, big wave paddling, and hectic jet ski rescues – conditions align for three days of swell at the world’s biggest ...

Categories include Men’s and Women’s Ride of the Year, Biggest Wave, Wipeout of the Year and Surfer of the Year – all to be awarded October 19, 2024, in Nazaré, ...

It’s early December. I’m 120 kilometres north of Lisbon in the Portuguese fishing town of Nazare. It’s a long way from my concrete box in Toronto, where the culture this time of year is to complain ...

João Mendonça doesn’t bury the lede. In his breakout edit, “Same Same” he starts off with the most infamous wave in Portugal: ...

Tributes have been paid to a legendary Brazilian surfer who died catching waves in Portugal’s notorious Nazare rip tide. Big wave surfer Marcio Freire died on Thursday while practising tow-in surfing ...

Brazilian surfer Carlos Burle may have smashed the big wave record when he caught a massive wave at Nazare off the coast of central Portugal on Monday. FBI agent Johnny Utah of "Point Break" fame ...

The World Surf League said its judges determined that a wave Rodrigo Koxa surfed at Nazare, Portugal, on Nov. 8 was 80 feet (24.38 metres) high You can save this article by registering for free here.