There's few surfers whose exploits have truly reached the mainstream in profound, unprecedented ways. One is Garret McNamara and the smash hit HBO show, 100 Foot Wave. Before Nazaré became a global ...

Big wave surfer Garrett McNamara on how his relationship to surfing has changed over a decade of chasing a 100-foot wave.

Frenchman Laurent Pujol, riding epic swells across the world on a custom Jet Ski, has one of the most singular jobs in cinematography. By Gary Baum Senior Writer “Big-wave surfing is life-and-death,” ...

Garrett McNamara, 55, is an extreme surfer who in 2011 set a world record in Nazaré, Portugal, for the largest wave surfed, at 78 feet. He co-stars in the second season of the HBO documentary series ...

Emmy winner Chris Smith has spent years documenting the evolving world of big-wave surfing in HBO ’s 100 Foot Wave. What started as a feature documentary has expanded into a multi-season saga, ...

Though HBO’s award-winning hit documentary 100 Foot Wave is about idealistic, daredevil surfers risking their lives to ride the biggest sets in the world, series director Chris Smith has defiantly ...