Will this electric fin propel surfing into the future — or wipe out?

Dmitri Kozhevnikov looked out to the water at San Onofre State Beach, where a high tide and lack of swell made for gutless conditions with only small waves rolling through.
“It’s perfect,” he said with a smile on a recent day.
Kozhevnikov and business partner Alexei Ostanin were at the beach to showcase their invention, Boost Surfing, an electric fin that allows surfboards to move faster in the water, without the need to paddle.
The duo, natives of Russia who now call Hunt