The ocean can turn deadly in an instant, unleashing massive big waves that hit with the force of a tsunami. These terrifying encounters show ships caught off guard as walls of water rise out of ...

On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck—but its ...

Huge breaking waves — some as high as 10 to 12 feet — are expected to be crashing down in the surf zone along the Jersey Shore this week, even though Hurricane Erin will be swirling a few hundred ...

Hurricane Erin will spare the U.S. East Coast a direct landfall, but will stir up life-threatening surf conditions along the entire Atlantic Coast from Florida to Canada's maritime provinces.

Bay Area beaches will face dangerous conditions through midweek, and low-lying shoreline neighborhoods could see flooding as king tides arrive, the National Weather Service said Monday. In a briefing ...

Maverick’s, Jaws, Nazaré…these are some faces on big wave surfing’s Mount Rushmore, the perennial spots, which every year, serve up some of the most unfathomably massive surf. But there’s a quiet ...