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.

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.

Since 2015, when the first images of the Surf Ranch were released into the wild, a lot has changed. For one, the rise of machines has exploded, kicking of a worldwide wave pool arms race. And because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last September, I got lucky. I found myself in the Maldives, covering a specialty surf contest, and my rudimentary understanding ...