The paper concerns modeling of two-phase flow with the volume of fluid method (VOF) and two high-resolution advection schemes based on the normalized variable diagram (NVD). Compressive Interface Capturing Scheme for Arbitrary Meshes (CICSAM) and High Resolution Interface Capturing scheme (HRIC). Both considered schemes are used to discretize convective term in the scalar equation for the transport of the volume fraction. High-resolution schemes are employed to minimize influence of the artificial numerical dissipation and to keep the shape of the step interface profile. Original contribution of this work is a detailed comparison of the two high-resolution schemes CICSAM and HRIC in the case of the breaking wave phenomenon. It is shown that using relatively simple to apply, high-resolution schemes it is possible to obtain good agreement with an experimental evidence and other authors results. However, some difficulties connected with optimal size of the local Courant number are adressed. Additionally, since HRIC scheme is used in commercial software (e.g. Comet, Fluent) it is important to understand its capabilities and deficiencies when compared to other schemes.