Webber Wave Pool: 2015

So i hadn’t actually heard of this wave pool until the other day. Shaper turned wave scientist - Greg Webber has come up with the best man made wave on earth, 2nd to the Wave garden in Spain.

After Kelly Slater’s Wave Co plans got grounded due to some dodgy shit, MW’s vision has the green light. “We’ve been making this kind of tube in the lab and the river for years,” says Greg. “At last, we will be doing it at full scale. The location is somewhere in Southeast Queensland, but we can’t say exactly where just yet.”

The wave itself breaks continuously and without end. It can accommodate multiple surfers at once. The wave height and shape can be altered within seconds in the oval water park. It breaks into a normal depth of water, exactly like an ocean wave, with a softer surface underneath, so if you do hit the bottom, it’ll be spongy. Greg believes that the gradient has been too gradual on wave pool attempts thus far, meaning development of perfect gradients for different wave stages has been a real area of focus within his project.

Remember how i said the future of surfing is in safe hands with the Ripcurl grommies?? Can you imagine the progression when you mix those grommets and this wave pool. Holy smoke! Mind blown.

Webber Wave Pools goes live and to the general public in Sept 2015

It’s been posted about in the “name the break” thread.

I spent a good day looking up info and watching videos / researching what they’ve been doing.
Very exciting stuff.

Ahhhh must of missed it Spaz! Doh!!

But yes it is super exciting. Worth its own thread for sure

I wonder how their going to police the crowds?? Im sure there will be certain amount of ppl to a time limit.

I suspect it will have an entry fee per hour and managing crowds will be easy.

Do they have a site yet! - Because it’s an undisclosed location.
Why would someone like Kelly Slater be denied the same type of setup!
The technology has been around for years; there must be a reason it’s not yet been built!(the animation in the video you posted is the same program they used back in 2007 when they were called Liquid Time Wave Pools).
I can just imagine being the GC council - being asked to spend money or allow assets to be used when nature provides the same thing.

They’ve been doing much of the testing in Clarence River, Yamba.
This video is 6 years old (there’s not much more recent).

What they need is funding, lots of funding! Along with a council backing the project.
I also expect proof of concept more than animation, scientific data and 2’ river waves.

From what I can see nothing has changed over the last 4 years.
I hope it’s for real and they get a chance to see if it will work full scale.

This video is better (only one clip newer than 4 years ago). It’s still small scale.

They hope to generate 3’-4’ waves which is ok. But I would hope for that as a minimum when talking about a predictable wave in a controlled environment.

Looks epic, and greg seems to know whats going on.

I say the quicker this thing gets up and running the better!! Yeeehhaawww!