Surfers ride watery giants, chasing 100ft waves
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The waves have been  nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new  life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who  ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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Greg Long, 24, won the Mavericks Surf Contest at Pilar Point in Half Moon Bay on Saturday, one of the worldâs premier big-wave surfing competitions.
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Executives are hoping a new surfing contest format will help bring television viewers.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - At first, American tourist  Matthew O'Connell thought the rising sea was the sign of a good  day's surfing ahead.
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New Zealand fishermen have caught what is expected to be a world-record-breaking colossal squid.
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LONDON: Massive waves created by violent storms off Britain and Ireland are ripping off chunks of cliff and hurling them inland over distances scientists did not think possible.
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PHUKET, Thailand The towering waves that roared ashore on the beaches of Thailand&#39;s resorts Sunday swept away sunbathers and snorkelers, bungalows and cars, and sent thousands of tourists fleeing for higher ground.
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MASSIVE surf forced the postponement of the Pipeline Masters in Hawaii yesterday, but that did not stop 24 surfers from attacking waves of more than eight metres at nearby Waimea Bay.
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New Zealand fishermen may have caught the largest Colossal squid ever found -- weighing around 450kg (992 pounds) and with rings the size of tyres.
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Strong wind blowing at over 100 kilometers an hour followed by a torrent hit Macedonia on Sunday.
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Humans may have lungs rather than gills but we feel the primal tug of the tide. Consciously or otherwise, we know weâre really all wet.
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In Muizenberg Beach, near Cape Town, surfer Gary Kleynhans teaches poor kids discipline, respect, and how to ride the waves like a champ.
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SACRAMENTO -- They were at a seaside bungalow when the Indian Ocean swelled unexpectedly and roared mercilessly onto land. The invading currents swept Laura Wales in a swirl of debris, but somehow she survived.
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SUPER maxis Konica Minolta and Skandia jousted across Bass Strait yesterday as thunderstorms and 35-knot headwinds slowed their pace and reduced the Sydney-to-Hobart fleet to fewer than 100 yachts.
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On a day of shifting winds and swelling waves, the challenger from New Zealand took the lead in the America's Cup yesterday in a classic race in which it beat defending champion Alinghi and nearly lost a crew member overboard.
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Roller coaster connoisseurs tend to dismiss water rides as too slow, too tame, and too wet. But the next generation of splashy tech should make coaster snobs take a closer look.
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A surfer rode a wave on his stomach to rescue a struggling dog that had been swept off a pier and into Lake Michigan by a wave.