When it gets big on the North Shore of Oahu, you can feel it in the air. The breeze feels electric. A low hum of excitement vibrates from the water and past the bike path, crossing the Kam Highway ...

Even Mark Healey, now 43 and raised with a nose for the North Shore's heaviest waves, hasn’t sniffed out every treasure around his home. Sometime during that two-week relentless run of swell last ...

“I just came from Mullaghmore, so I was warmed up on the backside,” Nathan Florence recalled from this session at an outer reef on Oahu. “But this was a bigger board and a different wave. So I was ...