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 ...
The business of measuring big waves is a tricky one. There’s multiple entities with their own calculation methods, there’s debate about where waves bottom out and where they peak, and there’s the ...
On December 19th, 2025, Brazilian big wave charger Rodrigo Koxa rode what some are calling a 29.15-meter (95.64-foot wave) at ...
After watching an episode of 100 Foot Wave, the HBO series featuring big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, you'll likely be left with goosebumps—it's anxiety-inducing to watch humans tumble down monstrous ...
For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...
The Emmy-winning docuseries 100 Foot Wave returns to HBO with five new episodes for us to watch, fascinated, as professional surfers dance on the crumbling rim of a monstrous wall of water. Directed ...
HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, which premiered earlier this month, follows a group of big wave riders as they travel the globe hunting for the planet's biggest swells The docuseries is about "so much more" than ...
"It was something that I had never seen before out there," Alo Slebir, a veteran of large swells, tells PEOPLE Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime and sports ...
100 Foot Wave has won the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmys. Other nominees for the award, which was announced on Sunday, Sept. 7, included Chef’s ...