For most of the world’s population, the hardest part of surfing is getting to an ocean and scoring good conditions. But that’s changing. Over the last decade, artificial wave pools have started ...

While wave pools may be the manmade surfing development du jour, there’s other synthetic wave-making avenues out there that are gaining some steam. For instance, an artificial reef in Western ...

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Abu Dhabi has many of the things that surfers hunt for in their quest for perfect waves: warm weather, year-round sun and clear water. The only thing it did not have was waves. That changed in October ...

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In the 1963 hit “Surfin’ USA,” the Beach Boys sang, “If everybody had an ocean/ Across the U.S.A./ Then everybody’d be surfin’/ Like Californ-i-a.” Brian Wilson didn’t know it, but he summed up ...

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