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, a 23-year-old from Santa Clara, Calif., caught a wave at the famous Mavericks surf spot near Half Moon Bay on Dec. 23 that is believed to be a world record.

Nov. 13, 2024 Sharp, supported by surf industry sponsors ... record when a Brazilian named Carlos Burle rode a 68-foot wave at Mavericks. But in the mid-2000s, Hawaiian big-wave surfer Garrett ...

What came next may end up in the history books. Slebir, a 23-year-old Santa Cruz local, caught a towering wave at the Mavericks surf spot near Half Moon Bay that was recently estimated by ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — One of the biggest waves in the world broke at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay during a jaw-dropping swell this December. Big wave surfers caught bombs on December 23 ...

A California surfer shredded a monster wave at Mavericks last week — and may ... ever surfed with Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, after catching the 86-foot wave off at in ...

If the wave's height is confirmed by Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, Slebir will hold the record for the ...

The massive swell that pummeled California’s coast Monday brought destruction and death, but it also created one of the best surf days in the history of Mavericks, the most famous big-wave surf ...

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Slebir’s epic ride was captured by Frank Quirarte, a veteran surf photographer and member of the Mavericks rescue team. The surfer was towed through frigid waters into the monster-sized wave by ...