First off, the surf is huge. The waves are unlike any other in the world, towering above 20 feet in the right conditions, and has been home to the Pro Tahiti world championship for more than two ...

In Teahupo'o, a village on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, they will ride through the barrel of powerful, hollowed out waves that are as tall as 25 feet and can drive surfers into a sharp ...

Late last year, a massive ocean swell caused by a low pressure system in the North Pacific generated waves up to 20 meters ...

This creates waves that can appear to break below sea ... With a proper swell, the 2024 event in Tahiti should be a fireworks show. If a jaw-dropping event is what organizers want, they certainly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Watch stunt rider Robbie Maddison from Australia as he rides his dirt bike over Tahiti waves. Video courtesy of Reuters Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from ...

Jamie O'brien carries a drone while riding a giant wave at Teahupo'o in Tahiti. As drone technology has become extremely accessible—parents capture family vacations as often as extreme athletes ...

Teahupoo is undeniably the most challenging spot for surfers to catch waves in Tahiti, producing serious swells (with waves up to 25 feet high) that break over a shallow coral reef. It's often ...

Few people have the surf skills, or the guts, needed to paddle out into the world’s biggest, heaviest waves. But for people ...

First up, Tereva David of Tahiti, widely respected as one of the wisdom keepers of the world’s heaviest wave, Teahupo’o. To surf in Tahiti is to experience surfing unlike almost anywhere else.

"Hosting the Olympics at Teahupo'o is the best spot they could ever pick just because it's such a good wave at that time of the year," said local Vahine Fierro, who won the Tahiti Pro in pumping waves ...

The village annually hosts the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf competition as part of the Association of Surfing Professionals World surfing circuit. Teahupo’o has a reputation as having some of the ...