On January 17, 2018, Hugo Vau was in the right spot at the right time to do what no other surfer had done before: Ride a wave measuring more than 100 feet in height. To the surfing world, that barrier ...

To harvest whales, seals or walruses, Wainwright hunter John Hopson goes out at sea. He leaves the bluff area next to the village and travels farther from shore, where the waves often become rough.

The open ocean can get fierce and wild. There, whipped into a frenzy, ocean swells and troughs can create walls of water that dwarf our puny seafaring vessels, and wreak peril on the humans brave ...

Accurate measurements of surface currents are crucial for coastal monitoring, rip current detection, and predicting the path of pollutants. Several methods exist to measure surface currents, some of ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It is highly unusual to get major changes in the temperature this time of the year. But this season has been a little different. Recently Rochester had temperatures only in the 50s, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A drone video from the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab shows a 28-foot wave in Hurricane Milton as it passed through the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, NOAA’s ...

An oceanographic buoy positioned south of Sicily, in waters between Malta and Portopalo di Capo Passero, has recorded a wave measuring 16 metres in height during the most violent phase of Storm Harry ...