"It was something that I had never seen before out there," Alo Slebir, a veteran of large swells, tells PEOPLE Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, crime and ...

Developer 290 Ocean got approval four years to build a 10-story building with 109 condominiums along Long Branch's beachfront. The project was then tied up in litigation, as a neighboring ...

A split second later, a wave growing to the size of a 10-story office building — and traveling faster than any swell he’d ever ridden — rose up behind him, and Slebir found himself rocketing ...

Alo Slebir during a recent surf trip to Ireland (left) and while riding a potentially historic wave in December off the coast of California. Surfer Alo Slebir, 24, rode a gargantuan wave estimated ...