A 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer may have broken the world record to become the first person to ride a 100-foot wave.

Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, 23, was surfing with friends on Dec. 23 when he caught what some are estimating to be a jaw-dropping 108-foot-tall breaking wave in the popular surfing spot just north ...

“I talked to a couple of the old timers already, and they were saying that day potentially was the biggest swell ever seen,” Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir said in Half Moon Bay on Christmas ...

Alo Slebir, 23, rode a wave at Mavericks on Dec. 23 that is estimated to be 108 feet tall. If confirmed, he will hold the world record.

As a friend on a jet ski towed Alo Slebir into a towering gray monster of a wave near Half Moon Bay on Dec. 23, the Santa Cruz surfer had no idea he might be riding into the record books.

HALF MOON BAY, California (KSBW) — Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir surfed a wave just two days before Christmas that could get him the best gift a surfer could ask for: a world ...

The wave was ridden by 23-year-old Alessandro "Alo" Slebir at Half Moon Bay's Mavericks surfing spot off, situated about 25 miles south of San Francisco. Newsweek contacted Alessandro Slebir and ...

23-year-old Alo Slebir caught the estimated 108-foot wave earlier this month near Half Moon Bay. It happened during a stormy day on Dec. 23. “I didn’t really know how big the wave was,” he said.

At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir pointed his ...