Ducking under a wave in the Indian Ocean #

The Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave with his alpaca, Pisco, at San Bartolo Beach in Lima, Peru, on March 16, 2010. #

A huge wave crashes against Castlerock Pier as the professional surfer Al Mennie waits on a break in the swell on December 22, 2016, in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. #

A surfer rides a huge wave during a tow-in-surfing session at the Praia do Norte, or North Beach, in Nazare, Portugal, on December 11, 2014. #

A bodysurfer punches through a wave at the Ehukai Sandbar near the surf break known as "Pipeline" on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, on March 20, 2013. #

A surfer performs an aerial maneuver in a large swell at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on January 4, 2008. #

A surfer rides a wave in Unstad, Lofoten Islands, Norway, within the Arctic Circle, on March 10, 2018. #

A dog rides a wave during the Surf City Surf Dog competition in Huntington Beach, California, on September 25, 2016. #

Surfers take advantage of a large swell at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia, on May 26, 2018. #

A surfer dives beneath a wave with his board in the Indian Ocean. #

A surfer drops in on an enormous wave on September 11, 2014, in the Hava'e Pass in Teahupoo, Tahiti. #

Sunset is viewed through a breaking wave in Durban, South Africa, on October 27, 2015. #

A surfer wipes out at Pe'ahi, also known as Jaws, while big-wave surfing on January 14, 2018. #

A man dressed as Santa rides a wave with a stand-up paddleboard on November 18, 2014, in Varazze, Italy, near Genoa. #

Magno Neves surfs at Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 10, 2015. #

Billy Kemper from Hawaii rides a big wave at Jaws, off the coast of Maui, on October 27, 2017, the first day of the Pe'ahi Challenge 2017. #

Surfers ride waves at Coolangatta in Gold Coast, Australia, on February 23, 2016. #

A view from below of a wave breaking in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on January 9, 2016 #

Anthony Tashnick gets airborne during the 2008 Big Wave Africa surfing event held at Dungeons Reef, off Cape Town's Hout Bay, on July 26, 2008. #

A surfer rides a massive wave in Newport Beach, California, on July 7, 2014. #

The surfer Cole Clisby rides his surfboard off the top of a wave as the sun sets off the shores of Leucadia in Encinitas, California, on January 15, 2014. #