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. But a ...
The big-wave break off the coast of Half Moon Bay was named after a German shepherd puppy who tried to swim into the surf back in the 1950s. Few others dared to make the leap until Jeff Clark began ...