Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about the creation of that wave, and the future of manmade wave pools.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Kelly Slater’s “perfect wave” nearly started as a surfing merry-go-round. Before the 11-time world surfing champ’s famed Surf Ranch became a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, the ...

About a year-and-a-half ago, I had the honor to visit to Surf Abu Dhabi – the Kelly Slater Wave Company joint, creating manmade waves in the Middle East. It was a luxury experience. After a couple ...

The main difference between the Kelly Slater Wave Company, and all the other prominent, players in the space vying for a piece of the pie, it the technology. Compared to most others, the KS Wave Co.

When Kelly Slater first released footage from the Surf Ranch – way back in 2015 – viewers were floored, left wondering: how the hell did he replicate, if not improve, nature, essentially playing god?

Artificial wave technology has been in the back of Kelly Slater’s mind since he was a wave-starved kid growing up in Florida. Last month, Slater played host to the world’s best surfers at the Surf ...