Garrett McNamara has spent decades pursuing an insatiable passion for surfing waves the size of office buildings while trying to avoid getting pulverized when those swells come crashing down around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The business of measuring big waves is a tricky one. There’s multiple entities with their own calculation methods, there’s debate ...

The five-part third season of the Emmy-winning HBO Original documentary series 100 Foot Wave, directed by Chris Smith and executive produced by Tony winner Joe Lewis, will debut Thursday, May 1 at ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last time I spoke with Joe Lewis, executive producer of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning show 100 Foot Wave, I mused: What happens if ...

Opening Shot: In footage from 2004, Garrett McNamara, then 37, emerges from the turbulence of a big wave, bleeding profusely from his brow. “I should probably stitch it. So I can surf.” The Gist: It’s ...

Capturing the raw power of the ocean is difficult enough. Doing it while managing a massive production budget, coordinating a team of cinematographers, and dodging 100-foot walls of water seems nearly ...

One of the most remarkable aspects of HBO’s Emmy-winning 100 Foot Wave docuseries on big-wave surfing is its showcasing of the stakes and the struggles involved. The surfers here are risking their ...

The world's best big wave surfers are back for the newest season of 100 Foot Wave, which chronicles the globe-trotting adventures of Garrett McNamara, who pioneered Nazaré, Portugal, as a big wave ...

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 ...