Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there ever was a Mount Rushmore of big wave surf spots, Jaws (or Pe’ahi) on Maui would be a giant, rock-sculpted bust on that ...

New York big-wave surfer Pete “Luigi” Shaw recently headed to Jaws to catch a healthy swell gracing the famous Maui reef. It was his sixth time surfing the wave, which he calls the best, most ...

If you happen to be a fan of big-wave surfing, we recently launched Twenty Foot Plus — a new series, chronicling the world’s best big-wave surfers in the heaviest waves on Earth. In between giant ...

“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...

On December 22, 2024, while the surf world’s collective eye was fixed on Waimea Bay during the 2024 Eddie Aikau Big-Wave Invitational, lensman Fred Pompermayer was in the channel at Jaws, documenting ...

The Pe'ahi Challenge is slated to start Friday afternoon (Hawaii time) and run through Saturday. Here's hoping it looks like this. Photo: Jeremiah Klein Kemper has won the contest two years in a row.

MAUI, Hawaii (KHON2) — The swell that brought up the notorious Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational on Oahu also brought major waves to Maui’s north shore, with one surfer surviving a gnarly wipeout.

Surfing big waves is sorta like striking a deal with the devil. On one hand, there’s the promise of glory, the best ride of one’s life, a thrill unlike anything else in everyday, pedestrian surfing; ...