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

SFGATE reported that Santa Cruz, California resident Alessandro “Alo” Slebir had possibly broken the Guinness World Record by surfing a 108-foot wave in December at the Mavericks surfing location at ...

“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 Eve ...

Historic swell slams California before Christmas, 2024; Huntington Beach outrigger canoe crew surfs massive waves at oil ...

A tidbit for the many North Coast surfers and surfing fans: SFGATE reported that Santa Cruz, California resident Alessandro “Alo” Slebir had possibly broken the Guinness World Record by ...

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.

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 ...