Surfers ride the bore tide on Turnagain Arm along the Seward Highway south of Anchorage on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Bob Hallinen Photo) The bore tide in the Turnagain Arm attracts surfers and ...

From left, Sonia Kumar, Amy Klink, and Greg Merrill cut blubber from a dead humpback whale that washed up on the shore of Turnagain Arm south of Girdwood on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

But here, at Turnagain Arm, the ride can last five to 15 minutes, and if you paddle out far enough, it can be up to an hour. “This is way longer for sure,” said Sullivan. “And you can feel it.

The drowning was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long estuary in Alaska known for its dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks.

Stormo is going to try surfing again, only this time he’ll be riding the Turnagain Arm bore tide, a tide that is famous for its waves that can reach up to 10 feet.

The best time to surf the Turnagain Arm bore tide in Alaska is during an equinox, but the 5-day window surrounding a new or full moon produces waves that will do the trick! You can literally ride ...

Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, was submerged Sunday evening as the tide came in at Turnagain Arm. His body was recovered Monday.