From hurricane-born swells to underwater canyons that act like magnifying lenses, this is the science behind the world’s ...

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Sally Warner, is an assistant professor of climate science at Brandeis. This article is republished from The Conversation. On Feb. 11, 2020, Brazilian Maya Gabeira surfed a wave off the coast of ...

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 ...

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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 ...