In a sleepy little Californian town, a surf competition was etched into the history books

'I just got the best wave of my life', says surfer before he was knocked out.

Seven surf breaks studied for 'Surfonomics'. Made with funding from NZ On Air

Monica Guo Shujuan is set on becoming the first woman from China to surf at the Olympics.

Fanning says he won't be deterred from surfing despite another close call with a shark.

The Corona Open J-Bay water-safety crew have had a busy week at Jefferys Bay.

Mick Fanning has been plucked from the water at Jeffreys Bay because of a large shark.

Surfing has been called off at Jeffreys Bay, with a mako shark spotted in the line-up.

Surfing great Kelly Slater has shared an x-ray image after breaking his right foot

Darren Mills hasn't been surfing since he fought off a shark at Curio Bay in 2014.

Kelly Slater was one of several surfers who saved the life of a friend in Australia.

Teen daughter dragged underwater in fatal attack, before father carried her body ashore.

The 17-year-old was surfing with her dad in West Australia when she was bitten.

A shark scare halted the action at the World Surf League at Margaret River today.

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The World Surf League has revealed its five nominees for the Wipeout of the Year.

More people taking up the sport, united in a fierce love of the waves.

Mathews, a fearless Australian-based daredevil with a reputation for being one of the best riders of huge waves in the world.

Marguerite Vujcich's mission to bring gender equality to the male-dominated sport of surfing has reaped rewards.

COMMENT: It appears Kaikoura's surfing community might actually end up benefiting from the region's post-earthquake coastline.

Auckland's mayor has said he's open to building a pontoon-like structure whose consent was put on hold by the council earlier this month.

Sabre Norris, 11, won the internet last month with a hilarious interview with Australia's Channel 9 - now she's taken her talents to the US with Ellen DeGeneres.

While his world tour peers are jockeying for waves and points on the North Shore, Mick Fanning is standing on a desolate beach in Norway, the sky ready to open up and dump snow. "I don't think I'm well," he says. "I can go anywhere in the world. Boardshorts, whatever. But no, I come here." He's not complaining. He's actually in awe.

American author Peter Dixon is the man behind many hit TV shows from the 1960s, '70s and '80s, including, Flipper, Little House on the Prairie, Knight Rider, and Bionic Woman.

A dream to run a surf school from a new seaside home is out of reach after the earthquake left a Kaikoura family out of pocket.

Kaikoura's surfers are anxiously waiting for a swell to see what the weekend's earthquake means for the region's famous surf breaks.

She's the little ripper with the bubbly personality of a young Bindi Irwin and the surfing ability of her hero Sally Fitzgibbons - Sabre Norris has gone global.

For an island state considered to be the home of surfing, Hawaii has had to wait some time for its next men's world champion. Twelve

A surfer has had a lucky escape after being bitten by a shark in northern NSW, leading to all beaches in the area being closed.

A Massey Uni researcher is adamant he's not studying surf rage as an excuse to hit the water and says the aggressive behaviour is common on NZ water.