Opening Shot: In footage from 2004, Garrett McNamara, then 37, emerges from the turbulence of a big wave, bleeding profusely from his brow. “I should probably stitch it. So I can surf.” The Gist: It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After watching an episode of 100 Foot Wave, the HBO series featuring big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, you'll likely be left with ...

Spoilers follow for the third season of 100 Foot Wave, which concluded on HBO on Thursday, May 29. Throughout 100 Foot Wave’s third season, the surfers we’ve watched for years tackling the ocean and ...

In his 50s, surfer extraordinaire Garrett McNamara decided he would chase the mythic 100-foot wave with the aid of a technique called “tow surfing” (which utilizes jet skis to change extremely large ...

One of the best sports documentaries in recent years was HBO’s 2018 documentary Momentum Generation, which followed a group of top American surfers through the 1990s and early 2000s and won the 2019 ...

The first season of 100 Foot Wave, which debuted on HBO in 2021, set up a hard act to follow. Those six episodes covered almost a decade of the evolution of big-wave surfing, specifically around the ...

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is renewing 100 Foot Wave for a third season, the network’s critically acclaimed documentary series built around famed big wave surfer Garrett McNamara. The news comes as season 2 of ...

After setting the Guiness World Record two years ago when he rode a 78-foot wave, Garrett McNamara smashed his own record by surfing a reported 100 ft. behemoth in Portugal recently. He claims to have ...

The Emmy-winning docuseries 100 Foot Wave returns to HBO with five new episodes for us to watch, fascinated, as professional surfers dance on the crumbling rim of a monstrous wall of water. Directed ...