On February 5, 2022, the world’s most recognizable wave––the Banzai Pipeline––was sucking in long, liquid breaths and exhaling 10-foot sapphire cylinders over the shallow reef, and the world’s most ...

It’s been almost four years since Robert Kelly Slater, the 11-time world champion and undisputed greatest of all time, won a Championship Tour surfing event. That was the 2022 Billabong Pipeline ...

The world’s best competitive surfers are gearing up for the World Surf League’s Lexus Pipe Pro, kicking off at the end of the month. Well, most of them. A few won’t be competing in the famed event at ...

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Kelly, 47, an 11-time former world champion surfer, appeared to fall off his board inside a barrel wave at the Pipeline Masters in Oahu, and what happened next will go down as surfing legend. He ...

For most people, retirement means peacefully riding off into the sunset. Kelly Slater isn't most people. While he may have surfed his last heat as a full-time Championship Tour competitor last summer ...

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Not even an Olympic gold medal or a world surfing championship has changed Caroline Marks' ebullient personality. "I'm still human, still have the same friends, still have my emotions," she said.

There’s a photo that appears early on in “Kelly Slater: A Life of Waves” that perfectly captures the enduring magic of the world’s most famous surfer. Shot at twilight, with a moody sky and the water ...

Back in 2019, during a pumping day of surf at the Billabong Pipe Masters, I managed to corral John John Florence, Kelly Slater, Gabriel Medina and Owen Wright to talk about tuberiding at Pipeline — ...

Excerpt adapted from On a Rising Swell by Dan Reiter. Published by University Press of Florida in April 2025. Used by permission On February 5, 2022, the world’s most recognizable wave––the Banzai ...