The season’s second very large northwest swell filled into Hawaiian shores on November 24th. As of 6am, the Waimea Bay buoy was a whopping 19.7 feet at 20 seconds, with a wave energy of 28710 kJ.

More from the Black Friday swell. It's like really good Thanksgiving leftovers that just aren't going away. That weekend, big wave surfers in Hawaii scored on Maui and Oahu. Ho & Pringle Productions ...

Probably the best river wave of my life.” Jamie O’Brien and Koa Smith surf the North Shore of Oahu’s premier novelty wave at its best.

The 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour kicked off on Wednesday, January 29th at small, yet contestable, Pipeline with opening day at the Lexus Pipe Pro. Meanwhile, as the first heats of the ...

The master of good times in the ocean, what’s easy to overlook about Mason Ho’s surfing given how much fun he appears to be having all the time is how hard he charges when the conditions call for it.

Taking a 25-foot, four hundred-pound outrigger canoe out to ride waves Waimea Bay takes a certain kind of commitment not necessarily found in your run-of-the-mill big-wave surfers. Which is where ...

Kerry Atwood began his career as a lifeguard at Waimea Bay 38 years ago, not far from where he grew up. For the past nine ...

Jamie O'Brien surfs the Waimea river whenever he can, so when he calls it the "best river in the last 10 years," it means a ...

Waimea Bay is sacred ground in big wave surfing. It is the site of the world’s most prestigious surf contest, the annual Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, although the event has only run 11 times ...