Does money buy happiness? In this case, it appears so.

Last September, I got lucky. I found myself in the Maldives, covering a specialty surf contest, and my rudimentary understanding of geography sparked a scheme. “I’m not too far from the Middle East,” ...

If wave pools, and the parent companies backing them, were depicted as a smattering of stereotyped high school personas, it might go a little something like this: Kelly Slater Wave Company, the jock ...