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.

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 ...

Kelly Slater unveiled the Surf Ranch in December, 2015, ostensibly breaking the internet and blowing the surf world’s collective mind in the process. The 2,000-foot long, 500-foot wide basin in ...

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