Big-wave surfing has become ingrained in European surf culture — epitomized in 2011, when Garrett McNamara set a world record for surfing a 78-foot monster at Nazaré, Portugal. In light of Nazaré being added to the 2016/2017 Big Wave Tour, we explored other European big waves and the hazards surfers face tackling these vast mountains of water.
The rococo brilliance of a cresting wave that lures us in the larger it becomes is deceptive. You’re unlikely to be attacked by a shark, yet you’ve still got plenty of hazards (as ever when surfing big waves) in Europe … More
Meet Barry Mottershead. The South African was nipped by the travel bug at an early age and so he combed the globe, eventually falling in love with Ireland.
Barry now resides on the Emerald Isle and works as a kayak tour guide to make ends meet. And for fun? He surfs Ireland’s heaviest waves.
A regular at Mullaghmore, Barry talks about his addiction to big-wave surfing in a new episode of This and Nothing Else. It might just make you question the things that you’re passionate about.
The teamwork between top surfers and a creative experimental photographer during the shooting of unprecedented action photos. In Surfing Lights ASP’s Adriano de Souza and the freesurfer Pedro Scooby join Marcelo Maragni in the search for the perfect shot in the desert nights of the United Arab Emirates.
I’m part Irish, and I’m a surfer, so it only made sense to surf on St. Patrick’s Day. Unfortunately the headband only survived one wave