SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Brazilian smashed the world record for the largest wave ever surfed when he rode a monster wave off Portugal. The World Surf League's judges determined that a wave ...

Hurricane Erin continued to strengthen Monday, Aug. 18 as it barreled toward the East Coast, forcing evacuations, churning up the Atlantic and spinning up dangerous life-threatening surf, with ...

A new study suggests that Vini Dos Santos rode a nearly 100-foot wave, breaking the current world record, at Nazaré, Portugal in 2022.

It was a muggy July day in Santa Cruz and life could not have been more mundane for Alessandro “Alo” Slebir. The 24-year-old was pounding wooden concrete forms into a missing section of sidewalk. Cars ...

I think many of us have more than a passing interest in extremes and world records. The Guinness Book of Records, cofounded by English twin brothers Ross and Norris McWhirter in 1955, and which is ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- Pro surfer Aaron Gold is recovering back home in Hawaii fresh from taking on the monster waves at Mavericks-- thrilling but not easy. "It landed right on me and gave me ...

A camera mounted on a buoy in Lake Michigan last weekend shows what it would be like in very rough conditions.