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Wave pools are a surfing luxury popping up all over the world. Arizona's getting its first next spring, and wave pool giant Aventuur is bringing them to 11 more destinations in the United States and ...

A little over a month ago, a new wave pool emerged into the blossoming world of synthetic surfing. But this one was different – it wasn’t like the daily barrage of new projects popping up across the ...

Surf travel—the hunt for a perfect wave—is a search for the sublime, a pursuit of fleeting transcendence, a journey into the fabled wilderness. The journey I took on a late February evening was no ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir drives an hour up ...

Last week, we announced that DSRT Surf was breaking ground in Palm Desert. But that’s not the only wave lagoon in the works in SoCal. We tapped Bryan Dickerson, founder of wavepoolmag.com, for an ...

Once upon a time, the first American wave pool, built specifically for surfing, was located in the unlikely town of Tempe, Arizona. Big Surf, it was called, and it opened in 1969 with a reported price ...

Sun Splash Family Waterpark in Cape Coral, Florida, opened a new $4 million wave pool on July 3. The 12,000-square-foot pool features seven wave patterns and varying intensities, with breaks every 15 ...

In 1969, the space race wasn’t the only game in town – the race to build the first wave pool in the U.S. was on, and Alabama was in it. Wave pools – indoor or outdoor swimming pools with artificially ...