While the record wave was measured in 2013, the WMO often takes years to certify official records to be sure that the recording equipment in question — in this case, a buoy — was working ...

Tallest wave ever recorded could have swamped the White House The monster 62-foot wave in the North Atlantic set an all-time world record.

A colossal wave recorded in the North Atlantic has smashed previous records for size. The 62 foot (19 meter) wave – captured between Iceland and the UK on February 4 2013 – has set a new world ...

The tallest wave recorded by a buoy reached a whopping six stories in height, and crashed down in a wall of water in the North Atlantic Ocean.

In 2006, a team of oceanographers recorded the tallest wave ever seen from a ship—a 95-foot-tall monster —in this swath of ocean in an area known as Rockall Trough.

Records agency says 78-foot wave off Portugal during 2011 surfing competition was tallest ever ridden ...