Laura Enever now holds the women's record for the biggest paddle-in wave ever surfed! The World Surf League has verified the wave alongside the Guinness World Records, claiming it was 13.5 meters ...
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.
"The same waters that our people just died in three days ago are the same waters the very next day these visitors, tourists were swimming in," an unnamed Maui woman told the BBC in a report ...
Rich Pierce (center, white shirt), who was the co-head surf judge at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, poses for a photo with clinic attendees after hosting Sunday’s session at Maui High School in Kahului.
And the stakes couldn’t have been any higher than they were in August of 2023, when Maui’s surfing community leapt into action after a generational fire razed the seaside town of Lahaina.