The Lake Tahoe disaster is believed to be the deadliest boating incident in California since 2019, when the Conception, a ...

American Garrett McNamara put this small Portuguese town on the surfing map after receiving an email from Portuguese Dino ...

The biggest, baddest waves aren’t born that way. Winds at sea generate waves that average ten feet high; during storms, 30-footers are common. But what creates waves the size of office buildings ...

Cities on every coast are facing hard, expensive decisions because of the seemingly more mundane effects of a warming planet.

In November 2011, McNamara claimed a Guinness World Record for the largest wave surfed after a ride in Nazaré. It was ...

It takes just one boat carrying an invasive to add another pristine lake to the list of infested water bodies.

As a professional big wave surfer, charging down mountains of water that reach the size of an apartment block, Garrett McNamara doesn’t scare easily. Perhaps best known for taking on huge walls ...

Adding to the peril in a sudden big storm, the water temperatures at Lake Tahoe are cold. The water at Rubicon Bay, near the site of the accident, was a chilly 58 degrees on Saturday. “The water ...