Surfing site open again amid wave of disputes

Inland surfing lake The Wave has reopened, with its new boss describing its staff as “incredible” for getting it up and running again.

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The Wave closed suddenly on Thursday last week after the company that ran it went into liquidation, but has been sold amid an increasingly bitter dispute among its shareholder companies.

The first major event at The Wave will be the English Para Surfing Open which was due to start yesterday (Wednesday). The event had been in doubt by the closure.

New interim chief executive Julian Topham thanked The Wave's ‘community’ for their support.

“Our incredible Wavemaker team has pulled together as always and been working flat out to get everything back up and running, and to be able to deliver surfs that have been booked,” he said.

“We know there will be lots of queries about cancelled bookings over the last week. We will be working through all of these and will get in touch with those affected as soon as we possibly can. Thanks for bearing with us. See you in the water soon,” he added.