Spectators at the Mavericks Surfing Contest were standing on the beach at Princeton-by-the Sea, California, on Saturday morning when large waves knocked them down. More than 12 people were injured ...

Slebir, a 23-year-old Santa Cruz local, caught a towering wave at the Mavericks surf ... to Bill Sharp, the contest’s organizer and an authority on big wave surfing. Sharp told SFGATE that ...

In February 2006, an unknown 32-year-old South African surf shop manager stood on the sand at Pillar Point, a hop across the ...