Photography by Gaetan Charlin, Leah Hahn, Anuanua Lucas, and Marcus Paladino. There’s been a lot of adjectives lavished on the amazing left reef outside Tahiti’s Passe Havaé over the past week or two.

They call it the End of the Road, but truth is Teahupo’o is the Beginning. It’s where the great Pacific southwest swells first feel land on their long journey across the ocean. Today, Sunday April 30, ...

But at Teahupoo, the waves build suddenly and massively. About 400 yards from shore, a large coral reef rises to about six feet beneath the surface at low tide, and 100 yards beyond the reef, the ...

The surf at the Tokyo Olympics was unremarkable at best, with conditions that could be described as unpredictable slosh. It was nearly impossible for competitors to show the kind of awe-inspiring ...

Through three rounds of the Billabong Pro women’s surfing contest at Teahupoo in Tahiti, here are the headlines: * Keala Kennelly Smashes Against Reef; Dizzy but Victorious. * Laurina McGrath ...

TEAHUPO'O, French Polynesia — Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo'o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling ...

For many of the competitors—and the 1,400-odd residents of the wave’s namesake village—this year’s contest is a dress rehearsal for an event with a far larger global profile in a few months’ time.

PARIS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Paris 2024 organisers are confident a solution will be found quickly for the construction of a judging tower that will allow them to finalise plans for the surfing competition ...

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Residents of the tiny Tahitian village of Teahupo'o say they are considering more protests to stop Olympic organisers building a three-story aluminium tower on a reef where the ...

The best surfers dream of waves that are almost, but not quite, unsurfable. The glorious and notorious Teahupo’o can be that kind of wave, thundering just off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia.

Preparing to deploy pressure transducers at Teahupoo, Tahiti. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 February 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.L.