Behind him is a 700-metre-long pool where a mechanism runs from one end to the other creating what may be the world’s most ...

It’s only a matter of time before the ocean’s best and biggest waves are replicated in a wave pool – and then some. Looking at where the modern wave pool explosion started, to where it’s at today, the ...

Back in January, less than a month before the kickoff to the 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour, three-time world champ Gabriel Medina withdrew from the season indefinitely. He had suffered a ...

One great promise of the wild world of wave pools is the increased amount of time actually riding a wave. Unless you’re surfing Chicama, Jeffreys Bay, or any other of the world’s greatest pointbreaks, ...

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,” ...

In southern central Slovakia, a small town is making a splash with an unusually bold claim. “This is the biggest wave pool in all of central Europe,” Jozef Šimko, the mayor of Rimavská Sobota, told ...

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