On Tuesday, 18 February 2025, the World Surf League gave the 'green alert' for the TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge in Portugal to start. Let the mayhem ensue.

On December 22, 2024, while the surf world’s collective eye was fixed on Waimea Bay during the 2024 Eddie Aikau Big-Wave Invitational, lensman Fred Pompermayer was in the channel at Jaws ...

The current WSL Big Wave season runs from November 1, 2024, until March 31, 2025, with the famed Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, the location for the TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge.

This, of course, is not the first, nor the last time that big wave surfing has trickled into the mainstream. It’s just the latest example to prove it’s more than capable of doing so.