In 2013, famed TV journalist Anderson Cooper traveled to Nazaré, Portugal for a segment on 60 Minutes. He met up with big-wave surfer and Nazaré pioneer, Garrett McNamara, for an up-close-and-personal ...

There's few surfers whose exploits have truly reached the mainstream in profound, unprecedented ways. One is Garret McNamara and the smash hit HBO show, 100 Foot Wave. Before Nazaré became a global ...

“My brain was fried, my hard drive was full, and I had to go back to the harbor,” Sydney surfer Matt Grainger told Surfline after surfing 80-foot waves at Nazaré for the first time. “On the way back ...

Garrett McNamara, 55, is an extreme surfer who in 2011 set a world record in Nazaré, Portugal, for the largest wave surfed, at 78 feet. He co-stars in the second season of the HBO documentary series ...

LISBON (Reuters) - Big wave surfer Garrett McNamara has launched a campaign to fight plastic pollution in the seas in an effort to "give back" to the ocean that gave him fame. McNamara, who started ...

“It let me go like a slingshot,” Garret says. “But right when I got to the double suck, the board kinda stuck in the face and I went over the handlebars and I hit so hard I shattered my shoulder. I ...