If you’ve been to a water park, there's a chance you’ve been in a wave pool. Fun for all ages, the waves in these pools simulate the effect of swimming in an ocean or large lake, no matter how far you ...

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, ...

The year is 2024. The earth’s oceans, as a result of pollution and endless eras of manmade carbon emissions and, thus, the resulting global warming, are slowly slipping into a cesspool of decay.

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 ...

Just 15 minutes from the Pacific Ocean and Newport Beach’s coastline dotted with epic surf breaks, a man-made wave pool has the green light to build. The Snug Harbor Surf Park won the Newport Beach ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. For most of the world’s population, the hardest part of ...

The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor ...

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 ...

Reigning women’s champion Caitlin Simmers is showing no signs of slowing down — and the Oceanside surfer is making it known she’s still on top. Simmers, 19, won her latest big surf event on Sunday in ...