The annual parade of world-record claims coming out of Nazaré can get confusing every winter. In my opinion, that’s mostly because the big wave and media community have fallen into a habit of blindly ...

(CNN) — As the swell begins to form and the crest starts soaring into the sky, surfer Sebastian Steudtner puts one hand back to feel the wall of energy rumbling behind him. In just a matter of seconds ...

Sebastian Steudtner with the 93.73-foot, and potential new world record, wave. Photo: Porsche It’s a tricky business, measuring wave heights. There’s the Hawaiian scale, which takes from the ...

(CNN) — German surfer Sebastian Steudtner may have broken his own record for riding the biggest wave in history earlier this year. The monster wave in the famed surfing sport of Nazaré, Portugal was ...

If you had to guess who holds the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed, you’d probably say it was a Hawaiian, or at least some gnarly dude from California. But you’d be wrong. The biggest ...

German surfer Sebastian Steudtner may have broken his own record for riding the biggest wave in history earlier this year. The monster wave in the famed surfing sport of Nazaré, Portugal was ...