Albee Layer in the terrifying Maui slab

With a couple of groms who carried a giant series on their heads


Pipe shots at Jaws

Albee Layer got a really good one


Surfer dies in Maui after shark attack

Jason Carter was 39 years old; the incident took place at a spot near Paia


There was also an opening session at Jaws

The sea was huge and with several epic waves


The first Jaws of the season

With a good part of the best big riders in the world in the water, and the presence of the Colombian Izzi Gómez


Killer beach break in Maui

Clay Marzo and friends doing their thing


The elusive Maalaea showed her best face yesterday

Recognized as the fastest wave in the world, it showed its personality in an impressive way


Steve Rice: “The leash broke my leg instantly”

The series that last week found everyone out of place in Jaws broke the femur of the big wave surfer who described the situation this way


Waves everywhere

At the same time, in recent days, it has pumped the entire American Pacific, the South Atlantic and the Caribbean; review some of the best moments


The swell hit better in Argentina

The Albicelestes surfed the best waves of the swell that arrived last weekend in the South Atlantic and this photographic tour makes it very clear


Wave days in the South Atlantic

10 moments of pure quality in different places in Argentina and Uruguay


From quarantine to Pico Alto: The return of surfing in Peru was packed with action

A review of what has happened in these days of flexibility and permission of sport in one of the most surfing countries on planet earth


Wave pandemic in Uruguay

Four days of gentle offshore wind and a swell that refused to go away, with no complaints from the authorities in this new normal


Manuel Selman: Isolated in Paradise

In the Dominican Republic, it was possible to surf and the Chilean did not waste it


The illegal swell of Puerto Escondido

The first really solid swell of the season arrived, the pumps were broken and surfing was not allowed, but...


Pipe pumping in the middle of the Hawaiian spring

With Jordy Smith, Jamie O'Brien and a gem taken by Peruvian Lucca Mesinas


Five perfect waves (out of thousands) that went unsurfed due to quarantine

The Covid-19 coronavirus, a bad friend of all, generated moments of unusual, unwanted beauty, but beauty nonetheless.


Five clips of surfers going crazy during quarantine

The desire to go into the water leaves creativity on the surface; this is what Jhony, Nacho and Julián, Héctor, Miguel and Martín and Thiago did


The coronavirus swell: In the midst of the pandemic, the sea became epic in Ecuador

Alvaro Malpartida, Chendo Velasco and friends went to paradise, grabbed pipes and got trapped in it


Summer swell in Punta de Lobos

The end of January and the beginning of February brought two swellazos to the queen of southern Chile


Only tubes in Jaws with Albee Layer

Few human beings can achieve a compendium like this


Hispanic American Peahi

Manny Resano recounts a historic day at Jaws in which Andrés Flores, Miguel Tudela, Álvaro Malpartida, Gabriel Villarán and Izzi Gómez were also present


Billy Kemper took "the deepest tube ever surfed at Jaws" according to Nathan Florence

And he immediately called it the best wave of his life. Watch the video


The best Uruguayan, Argentinean and Brazilian summer day in a long time

For many vacationers it was larger than what they were looking for and needed, for a few others it lived up to their expectations and capabilities.


Best swell ever at Silverbacks?

After the millennium storm in Uvita Island, Bocas del Toro shined


Video highlights from the final day of the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro

This is how Maxi Cross, Noel de la Torre and Lorena Fica were crowned


The best photos from the final day of the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro

This is how Maxi Cross, Noel de la Torre and Lorena Fica were consecrated


Chile made the home team respected and won all the categories of ALAS de Reñaca

Maximiliano Cross, Noel de la Torre and Lorena Fica are the new leaders of the American ranking


The swell of the millennium in Uvita Island

Chronicle of a storm that entered the history books, with the account of local, Mike Castro


The best photos from the second day of the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro

Chile is dominating the first stage of the Latin tour


The quarterfinals were defined at the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro

In addition to the women's final and the junior semis, an overwhelming Chilean majority arrives on the decisive day


Watch the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro live

The second day of the championship is already in the water


The best photos from the first day of the ALAS Tour 2020

Here's some of what happened on Day 1 of the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro


Noel de la Torre was the man of the opening day of the ALAS 2020 tour

The 14-year-old achieved by far the best score in both the open and junior categories; the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Pro opened the season with small and fun waves in Sector 5 of Reñaca


The Latin tour starts next week in Reñaca

With the Maui and Sons Viña del Mar Open of Surf, which will be three stars and will distribute 15.000 dollars


Kai Lenny and Nathan Florence had one of the best shared tubes ever

At Jaws three days ago. Watch two angles of the wave on video


Christmas gifts from all over Latin America

One of the best Decembers ever in the South Atlantic, a solid northerly swell in the Pacific and Caribbean working gave the best gifts that these holidays can give


The old continent is being hit relentlessly

And here are five sessions that prove it.


The best photos from the final day of the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro

A review of the day that defined the leader of the 2020 QS ranking


The final day of the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro, on video

This is how Analí Gómez became champion


Analí Gómez won the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro for the second consecutive year

She became the first two-time champion of the event and starts 2020 leading the QS ranking


Daniella Rosas is the new South American WSL champion

Peru beat Brazil by six to five in the history of regional titles


Video highlights from day one of the 2019 Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro

The fight for the South American title between Daniella Rosas and Lorena Fica continued


The Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro has kicked off and the fight for the South American title continues

Both Daniella Rosas and Lorena Fica advanced and still have a chance of winning the cup


Four favourites to win the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro

A mix of statistics and experience with class on the left


These are the scenarios for the definition of the South American title of the WSL

Peruvian Daniella Rosas is the only one who depends on herself to take her first regional trophy at the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro, however, she has a mathematical chance of reaching eighth place in the ranking.


These are the series of the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro

The event kicks off on Friday with 26 surfers from nine countries


Mecca has woken up: Three epic days on the North Shore and the waves are still crashing

A compilation of the best waves from the last few days of big, tubular waves at the seven miles of wonders


Ranking leader Daniella Rosas will not go to Punta de Lobos and the fight for the South American title is red hot

The Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro will have a very interesting seasoning


The Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro will decide the South American champion

Between October 31 and November 2, Punta de Lobos will host the tournament for the sixth consecutive time. Rosas, Fica, Barona, Hinckel and Indurain will fight for the title


The Pacific got good

A review of what happened on that side of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico


Spring has arrived with a vengeance in Uruguay

Winter is gone and brings good news to the South Atlantic. Postcards from a storm surge presented by Maui and Sons


Five photos from an epic winter Sunday in Uruguay

The pleasure of when it's better than you thought. A new edition of Chronicles of a storm presented by Maui and Sons


The first time at El Gringo

A group of young people from Arica between 11 and 16 years old, accompanied by their coach, Gepeto Álvarez, entered the South American Pipe for the first time and here they tell their experience


Two left tubes, two goofy footers, two oceans, two sequences, the same day

Kai Gale in Bingin and Josymar Fuentes in Witch's Rock and a walk through the best place in the world


A week in El Gringo

A video by Johannes Bock that reviews everything that happened inside and outside the Latin Pipe Masters


Uruguay welcomed winter with open arms

After weeks of record amounts of rain, a certain sandbank magically settled itself and a handful of locals enjoyed an epic day of waves


The important procedures of this week at the Intendencia

Andro Crvik and JC Lombardi did it again. And they were joined by Nico Diaz to take the photos


The insane bass

Last Thursday all the conditions were met in the big outside wave of Iquique and JC Lombardi, Andro Crvik and Camilo Vileño were on hand


A photo tour of the final day of the Maui and Sons Arica Pro

18 moments from a historic day at El Gringo


Alonso Correa: “I'm looking to get into the Tour and this brings me a little closer”

Interview with the runner-up of the Maui and Sons Arica Pro who is on fire and climbed to 13th place in the QS ranking


Alonso Correa was runner-up in El Gringo and rose to 13th place in the ranking

On a day with waves, the victory was narrowly missed by Peru; Joaquín del Castillo placed fifth and continues to climb positions


They found the real gringo and a documentary is coming

Director, producer and documentary maker Rodrigo Farías Moreno is preparing another audiovisual gem


Alonso Correa and Joaquin del Castillo made it to the quarterfinals in Arica

It was an epic Saturday at El Gringo, tomorrow the sea is expected to be bigger. Today, Skip McCullough hit a 10-point shot


The best 32 were defined in El Gringo

Joaquín del Castillo had the best score of the fourth day of the tournament. Mesinas, Usuna, Muñoz and Miguel Tudela also advanced.


It was Danilo Cerda's day today at El Gringo

The local respected the house, surfed the best wave and achieved the highest total of the day on a day in which the tubes followed the order


Everything you need to know about El Gringo

Local Guillermo Satt spreads all the details of the South American Pipe


Sebastian Correa was the best today at El Gringo

He backed up a barrel with an intermediate score and was fully into the third round. Australian Dean Bowen surfed the wave of the day after being injured


The best photos from day 1 of the Maui and Sons Arica Pro

Fourteen moments from the start of the Latin Pipe Masters


Nick Marshall was the man of the first day of the Maui and Sons Arica Pro

The American junior surfed the two best waves of the day; the first qualifiers for the round of 64 were defined


New winds blow at the Maui and Sons Arica Pro

The 10-year anniversary of the event brought changes and innovations to the tournament, with a firm intention to reach 6.000 points and plans for a high-performance center


Four former champions share the key to winning at El Gringo

Gabriel Villarán, Guillermo Satt, Álvaro Malpartida and Tomás Tudela share their stories. They talk about the love for tubes, the fun in them, the knowledge and confidence


Christopher Herold: “A life tied to such a dangerous wave is intense”

Interview with one of the most loyal locals of the South American Pipeline, the home of the Maui and Sons Arica Pro


Pablo Montero's best session of the Galician winter

“Perfect one-metre tube waves breaking left and right and nobody else in the water but us,” says the surfer in an interview


A perfect workers' day in Uruguay

With Santi Medeiro, Tiago Kerber and Tomás Materi. A new chronicle of a storm presented by Maui and Sons


The stars aligned on Wednesday in Punta de Lobos

Merello, Medina and other locals lived a dream day. "One of the most perfect days I have seen in Punta de Lobos," said the photographer of the article, Rodrigo Farías Moreno.


The Chilean version of the Rip Curl Pro Search has been reactivated

The event has been put on yellow alert and could take place in the coming weeks in Chiloé. It has invited guests from six countries.


“We are looking ahead with a very good chance that surfing will be in all the Olympic Games”

ISA President Fernando Aguerre comments in an interview on the importance of today's announcement. He said that if the announcement is confirmed, the number of competitors per gender will go from 20 to 24, with a total of 48 surfers. There is no news on whether it will be in a pool or in the sea.


Urcia, Santos and De la Torre took the first

Two Chileans and one Peruvian dominated the start of ALAS 2019 in Reñaca


Araki and Fica started winning in the Chilean

The De la Torre brothers and the young Estela López dominated in the youth categories and were prominent in the senior divisions


The 10 most read articles of the year in DUKE

Discoveries, historical waves, events, opinions, chronicles of storm surges, etc.


Analí Gómez won in Punta de Lobos

All 1500 points from the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro went to Peru


Chileans are the majority in the quarterfinals in Punta de Lobos

On a day of solid and perfect lefts, the eight best were defined in the Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women's Pro, the QS 1500 in southern Chile


Dominic Barona is now the South American WSL champion

No one can catch her in the final stage in Punta de Lobos. It is the second regional title of the year that the Ecuadorian has won in advance.


The Mexican Madness of Manuel Selman

The Chilean met his photographer friend Pablo Jiménez in Zicatela and in four days of a lot of surfing they produced this audiovisual work of art


The day of the year in Wilderness

Chronicle of a swell: All the energy of the expected swell materialized in an epic session on the legendary wave of the North Shore of the Atlantic


Two days of magic and bombs in Punta de Lobos

Chronicle of a storm surge that made the queen of the Chilean coast work in a great and perfect way


Four moments from the last swell in Puerto Escondido

He didn't go XXL but he was hot, and waves keep coming in


Jack Robinson: “(Medina) doesn't really scare me one bit”

A few days before competing in the CT that started at home and continues in Bali, the Australian spoke with DUKE


Interview with Aritz Aranburu: "I can't complain, I'm living life to the fullest"

QS calls for better waves, going to the Olympics requires more communication, a good start to the year, the secret to a balanced life, and much more


Jeronimo Vargas from Brazil won the Latin Pipe Masters

The Brazilian climbed 50 places in the rankings. Jacob Willcox of Australia placed second


The eight best have been defined in El Gringo

Mendes, Bowen, Wilcox, Tudela, Muñoz, Dantas, Vargas and Usuna will define the tournament tomorrow


“For now I am focused on the CT and if I get in, I imagine I will be in the Olympics”

Interview with Noe Mar McGonagle after his season-best result in the 6000m in Japan. “My year has already changed dramatically just with that result,” he said


“It’s not that I’m loud, I don’t want anyone to intimidate me”

Beating Wilko, competing with Medina, shark events and his controversial statements; interview with Kael Walsh


Five series and until tomorrow

Jacob Wilcox and Jeronimo Vargas were the best on a short day at El Gringo today


Inconsistency was the protagonist but the tubes kept pumping

The worst day of waves at El Gringo was still better than any QS in the rest of the world. Several favorites fell; Aliotti kept breaking, Chinca sweated to get through


Chumbo on the head

Lucas Chianca continues to dominate at El Gringo. Today he scored 18,60 out of 20 possible. Aliotti was the closest with 15,50


“I don’t want to survive the big waves, I want to surf them”

Interview with Brazilian big rider Lucas Chumbo Chianca, who chose to come to Arica and miss the swell of the century in Fiji


Joao Chianca invented a new way of tubing

Like Michel Bourez's but much more dangerous


Bombs and split boards session at El Gringo

The second day of the event dawned a little bigger and a little heavier too


Lucas Chumbo Chianca dominated day 1 at El Gringo

The Latin Pipe pumped solid two-meter tubes. The Japanese Takuto Ohta left the hospital injured, went into the water and won his series


Early morning free surfing today at El Gringo

With Lele Usuna, Álvaro Malpartida, Joao and Lucas Chianca, among others


A new edition of the Latin Pipe Masters begins today

The Arica Pro Tour is much more than a QS 3000; legends are made at these events


Today's show on El Gringo with Lucas "Chumbo" Chianca

"I was planning to go to Fiji, but I really like it here," said the Brazilian big rider. "It was an incredible wave," he concluded.


An eventful day of training at El Gringo

Three surfers have already visited the hospital for injuries sustained in Pipe Latino


Waves everywhere

The Atlantic and Pacific were sparking this week. Here we take a tour from south to north.