Set on a leafy, riverside campus near Albany, NY, Aquatic Development Group (ADG) started as a commercial pool contracting business in the 1950s. The company got into the wave game in the 1980s and has been designing surf park experiences worldwide ever since. They’ve had a hand in film sets like the classic “North Shore,” and built some of the first purpose-built surf pools in Southern California, which hosted the first professional surfing competition in a wave pool back in 1989.