A California surfer may have set a new world record with a wave he caught last month, and the video of the feat looks like a scene straight out of

Alo Slebir is no stranger to huge waves at Maverick's, but on December 23 he rode one that might have broken the 100-foot wave mark. What do you think?

One of the biggest waves in the world broke at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay during a jaw-dropping swell this December. Big wave surfers caught bombs on December

At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped and floating in the ocean, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir pointed his surfboard down the face of a growing wall of water.

On Christmas Eve, a surfer from Santa Cruz rode a wave at Mavericks that witnesses say was over 100 feet tall, which would set a world record. But how do you reliably measure a wave?

Image via YouTube Gnarly, dude! A California surfer hanged ten big time on a recent wave and may have just surfed his way into the history books. It's very possible that he surfed a record-breaking wave.