A 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer may have broken the world record to become the first person to ride a 100-foot wave.

Total wave height, also known as significant wave height, describes the combined height of the sea and the swell that mariners experience on open waters. The Bureau provides model forecasts of total ...

The Ucluelet wave’s significance lies not just in its height, but in its proportion to surrounding waves. Johannes Gemmrich, a physicist from the University of Victoria, noted that it was ...

In the next few weeks, we will confirm the height using the same method used to measure at Nazare.” Slebir’s wave was recorded by several camera angles, including from photographers positioned ...

In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of the ...

It’s too early to know if Slebir truly did break the world record. Judging surf wave heights is inherently difficult and contentious, and Frank Quirarte, a member of Mavericks Rescue ...

The National Weather Service said wave heights from this last swell reached about 40 feet face value. The swell direction was also a mix of west and northwest, which changed the shape of several ...

The primary objective of this project is to forecast significant wave height along the coasts of Ireland. The project encompasses a comprehensive data preprocessing phase, involvibg data cleaning, ...

Bass Strait is a notorious stretch of water between Victoria and Tasmania. Extreme wave heights occur often and opposing tidal currents may increase wave steepness.