Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last September, I got lucky. I found myself in the Maldives, covering a specialty surf contest, and my rudimentary understanding ...

Since Kelly Slater first unveiled his Frankenstein monster of a wave pool to the world back in 2015, the Surf Ranch, as it’s come to be known, has been at the upper echelon of synthetic surfing – both ...

If wave pools, and the parent companies backing them, were depicted as a smattering of stereotyped high school personas, it might go a little something like this: Kelly Slater Wave Company, the jock ...

Last September, I got lucky. I found myself in the Maldives, covering a specialty surf contest, and my rudimentary understanding of geography sparked a scheme. “I’m not too far from the Middle East,” ...