The list of 32 invited surfers and 28 alternates was shared by Eddie organizers Wednesday, as well as the contest window from December, 2025 to March, 2026.

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz had two big-wave surfers win titles at the 25th annual Big Wave Challenge Awards celebration at Lido Theater in Newport Beach on Saturday. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir was named the ...

The 2025-2026 Rip Curl Eddie Big Wave Invitational in Memory of Eddie Aikau is set to be held between Dec. 7, 2025, through March 6, 2026.

Brazilian daredevil Maya Gabeira has improved her own world record for the biggest wave surfed by a woman, riding a 73.5 foot (22.4m) giant at Portugal's Nazare and overshadowing the top male surfers ...

A newly released study claims it dethroned the biggest-recorded wave ridden by Sebastian Steudtner at Nazaré in 2020.

Big-wave surfer Andrew Cotton is not keen on heights yet plummeting down the side of an 80ft Atlantic breaker feels like the most natural thing in the world to the Englishman.

The swell two days before Christmas that gave Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir the ride of his life on a towering wave at Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay was officially the biggest wave ridden ...