For Ray Booth, surfing is more than just a sport. It's a passion, a way of life, a therapy. Maybe even an obsession. So when the coronavirus pandemic shut down California beaches from Mexico to Oregon ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

Hawaii’s Landon McNamara was crowned the champion of the 11th Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational today. As the winner, McNamara captured the title along with $50,000 in prize money and 350,000 in ...

Ana Manero is a volunteer with not-for-profit Surfing Mums. Ever since Polynesian pioneers took to the ocean on wooden rafts, people have been hooked on riding waves. Today, surfing is one of the ...

As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone’s attention is focused on host city Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, apart from ...

(CNN) — Siargao’s global reputation as the “surf capital of the Philippines” dates back to 1980, when surf photographer Tony Arruza and surfer Steve Jones visited the island in their quest for the ...

Few people have the surf skills, or the guts, needed to paddle out into the world’s biggest, heaviest waves. But for people who have always dreamed of getting up close to the bombing barrels in Tahiti ...