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 ...

ESPN did their homework on this one. If you’re going big-picture at Maverick’s, Jeff Clark and Mark Sponsler are two guys who must be mic'd up. The former, of course, is credited with being the first ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir drives an hour up ...

“I talked to a couple of the old timers already, and they were saying that day potentially was the biggest swell ever seen,” Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir said in Half Moon Bay on Christmas Eve, ...

Via satellite monitoring, scientists detect unprecedented swell in the Pacific Ocean from 2024 storm, which brought huge ...

“It’s the fastest I’ve ever traveled on a surfboard,” Slebir tells PEOPLE. “I’ve never experienced a sensation like that before” The wave — which thundered into Northern California’s Mavericks surf ...

The business of measuring big waves is a tricky one. There’s multiple entities with their own calculation methods, there’s debate about where waves bottom out and where they peak, and there’s the ...