Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...
Big waves, bigger performances. Now in its fourth iteration, this winter the Red Bull Magnitude, a specialty big-wave event, got underway with 24 of the top female big-wave surfers on the planet. With ...
The threat of those waves is not baseless: big-wave waterman Mark Foo drowned at Hawaii’s Mavericks in 1994, while Hawaii local Todd Chesser died surfing a huge swell on an outer reef off the North ...