Only experts, like Portugal’s own Nic Von Rupp, tempted fate in search of glory and motored out to have a crack at what Rupp called the “biggest swell in years.” Check out his video recap below. “Some ...

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In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

That world record currently stands at 86 feet, held by German big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner after an incredible wave at Portugal’s famed big wave break, Nazaré, in October 2020.

In the winter of 2016-17 the World Surf League held its first ever big wave event in Portugal, the Nazare Big Wave Challenge.After a day of carnage the event – a strictly paddle surfing affair ...

Sebastian Steudtner of Germany currently holds the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed ... Steudtner rode another massive Nazare wave and, with engineers from Porsche, measured the ...

Brazilian charger and world record holder for the largest wave ever surfed by a woman Maya ... In 2013, she suffered a horrendous wipeout at Nazare that nearly cost her her life, and spent the ...

Matt Formston: more important than a title or breaking a record ... in Nazare at the time, and towed Mr Formston to the highest waves. "Lucas Chumbo is one of the all time legends of big wave ...

Elsewhere in the Pacific, there's been less crickets – capping off 2024, the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational ran at Waimea Bay (congrats, Landon McNamara), a potential world record wave was ...

Large wave in Nazaré, Portugal, where the record was set for the biggest wave ever surfed in 2017. (Alexander Ehlers/Getty Images Plus) At the time, the so-called Draupner wave defied all ...