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The latest video from Tim Bonython tells the stories of Katie McConnell, Michael Fregonese and Polly Ralda, three surfers who are learning to take on Nazare.

“North,” a photo book by Brown W. Cannon III, captures Hawaii’s surfing culture and the people drawn to it. “All the images and stories assembled here in one place, between these pages, this is my family,” Cannon says.

The next evolutionary event in big-wave surfing, activated by Surfline, Red Bull and Heavy Water Surf

Another swell lights up the North Shore as the Red Bull Magnitude window nears its close

Anticipations ran high today as the largest swell of the season was expected for the North Shore.

All-female big-wave surfing event ups the ante with $50K prize purse

In Praise of Surf Moms Celebrating some of surfing’s finest maternal shredders in honor of Mother’s Day Kelia Moniz. Photo: Brent Bielmann Dashel Pierson Link copied to clipboard Moms are the best. They – quite literally – give us life, they guide us into this crazy world, and they do it all with a badass attitude. And surf moms take it a step further. Whether they’re moms who surf, or moms of surfers, or anything and everything in between, they do it all — from shuttling the groms ...

When those defined lines of long-period energy come marching out of the North Pacific toward these famed volcanic gems, the true energy and ferocity of these waves can’t be captured from the beach. The action is best documented from out in the channel, often yards or mere feet from where massive chunks of sea realize their full potential, topping over themselves in nature’s display of beautiful blue violence. Being that close to the beast is perilous to say the least. A photographer must be...