One of the primary complaints, in the burgeoning world of wave pools, is homogeneity. Whereas the ocean provides a unique canvass like a fingerprint, in the pool, the waves are all the same. This ...

There’s a recent Stephen King novella, Elevation, which chronicles a man who mysteriously loses weight, despite looking physically the same on the outside. The fantastical condition leads him to ...

A surf pool set in the desert that will deliver 1,000 waves per hour will open to the public by mid-July, if all goes as planned; a project anticipated to be the largest of its kind in North America.

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Cutting-edge tech is turning deserts and other inland areas into top-flight surfing destinations. David Shortell is a journalist based in Mexico City. His work has appeared in publications including ...

Filming and reviewing by Hannah Anderson and Nick Carroll. The best and only way to approach a new wave pool set-up is just the way you’d approach any new surf spot: watch it first, get the entry and ...

Surfers could one day have access to a limitless supply of big waves, each a perfect swell, thanks to a new surfing oasis built not far from the everyday I-95 gridlock in South Florida. In an ...