A record-shattering Pacific storm in 2024 unleashed waves so massive they were visible from space. In December 2024, a ...
Tim Bonython found this footage of The Right as he was looking back through the hard drives. It was one of the craziest days ...
The swell two days before Christmas that gave Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir the ride of his life on a towering wave at Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay was officially the biggest wave ridden ...
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 ...
A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not expect. A satellite designed to track the height of the ocean’s surface ...
NASA ’s SWOT system plotted the images of the storm against a tsunami forecast model from the NOAA. The study demonstrated ...
“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...
A powerful earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in late July caused a massive Pacific tsunami, which was spotted in unprecedented detail by NASA and CNES’s SWOT satellite. The observations ...