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The Big List: 10 Rapid Wave Pool Technologies and How They Work

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What is a standing wave? Also known as a stationary wave or rapid wave, in surfing terms it is a wave with moving, surf-able water that contains the characteristics of a river rapid wave. Standing wave pools are human made stationary waves designed to produce a wide variety of rapid waves. How do these waves differ from the surf in

What is a standing wave? Also known as a stationary wave or rapid wave, in surfing terms it is a ...Continue ›

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The Big List: 21 Moving Wave Technologies and How They Work

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How Do Wave Pools Work? There are several wave pool technologies on the market today that create surf with plows, paddles, levers, plungers and pneumatic systems. These devices are controlled by sophisticated software and motors. When activated in sequence they displace water to produce waves in the desired height or shape. Wave Technology Companies Today Include: The Kelly Slater Wave

How Do Wave Pools Work? There are several wave pool technologies on the market today that create surf with plows, ...Continue ›

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How the AllWaves system works

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AllWaves AllWaves uses an underwater textile system powered by exterior hydraulics. They call this machine the “wavemaker.” When the wavemaker pushes out waves they break along a reef on each side of the pool. This creates right and left point break waves down the length of the pool. A second reef is situated at the front of the main pool.

AllWaves AllWaves uses an underwater textile system powered by exterior hydraulics. They call this machine the “wavemaker.” When the wavemaker ...Continue ›

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How the Endless Surf wave system works

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Endless Surf Endless Surf is another one of the major pneumatic systems on the market today. Surf is created when air is pushed through caissons (chambers) in sequence to produce a variety of wave shapes and sizes. The number of caissons at the deep end of their heart-shaped pool correlates with the wave system’s size. An Endless Surf 18 has

Endless Surf Endless Surf is another one of the major pneumatic systems on the market today. Surf is created when ...Continue ›

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How the American Wave Machines/PerfectSwell system works

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American Wave Machines/PerfectSwell PerfectSwell uses a pneumatic system similar to Endless Surf, SurfLoch and others. While there are nuances to the systems that come through in the patents and are obvious to engineers, it’s basically air pushed into the water to create waves. The pneumatics are housed in caissons hidden in a central wall. Software controls the firing sequence of

American Wave Machines/PerfectSwell PerfectSwell uses a pneumatic system similar to Endless Surf, SurfLoch and others. While there are nuances to ...Continue ›

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How the Wavegarden Lagoon system works

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Wavegarden Lagoon The first of the wave pool 2.0 generation to break ground nearly a decade ago is alive and well at Adventure Parc Snowdonia. This is the beast that launched the whole revolution while Kelly, Greg Webber, Lochtefeld and others were still in the lab. Developed deep in the Basque Country of Spain, the world woke to the Lagoon

Wavegarden Lagoon The first of the wave pool 2.0 generation to break ground nearly a decade ago is alive and ...Continue ›

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How the Wavegarden Cove works

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Wavegarden Cove Wavegarden developed the Cove system shortly after their groundbreaking Lagoon design. Where the Lagoon had limitations in wave count and variety, the Cove resolved these issues critical to a profitable surf park. The system is a diamond-shaped pool with a customizable pier or footbridge running through the center. The top end of the pier houses the machinery that

Wavegarden Cove Wavegarden developed the Cove system shortly after their groundbreaking Lagoon design. Where the Lagoon had limitations in wave ...Continue ›

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How the Surf Loch wave pool works

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SurfLoch Wave pool OG scientist Tom Lochtefeld finally saw his design come to light in 2020. After years of test tanks and sketches, the inventor of the FlowRider pumped out waves at an abandoned water park in the desert. SurfLoch’s technology uses pneumatic systems within big caissons (a watertight concrete or metal chamber) that push out air to displace water

SurfLoch Wave pool OG scientist Tom Lochtefeld finally saw his design come to light in 2020. After years of test ...Continue ›

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How the Surf Lakes wave pool design works

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Surf Lakes Anyone who has tossed a rock into still water and watched the ripples fan out comprehends the Surf Lakes system. Mix in elementary bathymetry knowledge and each one of us believes we could design such a machine. But we can’t. A pneumatic system pumps hydraulics to move a giant central plunger up and down at a specified height

Surf Lakes Anyone who has tossed a rock into still water and watched the ripples fan out comprehends the Surf ...Continue ›

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How the WaveSEG wave generation system works

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WaveSEG Argentinian company with a fully-funded research warehouse developing the latest pneumatic approach to wave-making. The system is an air-compression-setup much like PerfectSwell, Endless Surf and Surf Loch, all of whom use a technique pushing out air from caissons to displace water and create waves. The WaveSEG system, at least the test models, looks very different because the air cannons

WaveSEG Argentinian company with a fully-funded research warehouse developing the latest pneumatic approach to wave-making. The system is an air-compression-setup ...Continue ›

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How the Webber Wave Pool system works

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Webber Wave Pools Greg Webber’s fertile mind has been spitting out wave pool and artificial reef concepts for years. His latest is a system on a looped steel rail track fitted with wheeled carriages. “Like a carriage on an urban monorail system,” he says. Wave-making hulls are attached to the wheeled carriages which are driven by electric motors. All of

Webber Wave Pools Greg Webber’s fertile mind has been spitting out wave pool and artificial reef concepts for years. His ...Continue ›

okahina wave system

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How the Okahina Wave system works

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Okahina Wave This system is not a wave pool, but a floating wave atoll deployed in lakes, bays and any calm body of water. Based on a spinning motor that directs waves outward along a spiral reef foundation, waves wrap along the spiral for 30-second rides. Max setting produces waves of 6-feet-high and a pier allows spectators to get close

Okahina Wave This system is not a wave pool, but a floating wave atoll deployed in lakes, bays and any ...Continue ›

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How the SwellMFG wave pool system works

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SwellMFG SwellMFG creates waves either by direct air injection into the water through caissons like most pneumatics or by a dropped lever. We don't know yet as they are quite secretive. What they will say is that the mystery motor pushes out waves in a way that resembles a natural surf spot. Waves come in A-Frame form with surfers splitting

SwellMFG SwellMFG creates waves either by direct air injection into the water through caissons like most pneumatics or by a ...Continue ›

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How the Waveprizm wave technology works

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Waveprizm WavePrizm says their wall-piston modular wave machines can produce the world’s most powerful artificially generated waves. The engineers also boast more than 800 waves per hour using 80% less energy than other systems on the market. The company creates surf through modules, and in a wave technology first, also offers full tide range capability. How it works is a

Waveprizm WavePrizm says their wall-piston modular wave machines can produce the world’s most powerful artificially generated waves. The engineers also ...Continue ›

SurfWrld planned wave pool

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How the Surfwrld wave system in Germany will work

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Surfwrld This is a double wave pool facility in Germany and will be constructed on the site of an abandoned coal mine. It’s unknown whether the core of the technology will be pneumatic-powered air chamber waves, levers, plungers, plows or something else entirely. One of the surf pools will be a size-able 300 meters long (Kelly's Wave is 700 meters

Surfwrld This is a double wave pool facility in Germany and will be constructed on the site of an abandoned ...Continue ›

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How the SwellSpot wave generation system works

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SwellSpot SwellSpot is two components, an engine and a pool. First the engine: Clusters of modules along a wall contain hydraulic plungers that fire in software-controlled sequence to push out swell across a body of water. Plunger stroke height and velocity are adjustable to control the speed and size of the traveling swell. The second component is the bathymetry that

SwellSpot SwellSpot is two components, an engine and a pool. First the engine: Clusters of modules along a wall contain ...Continue ›

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How Ecaudor’s Olas wave pool system works

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Olas Olas uses a stacking module system similar to Cove wave-generation with differences on the patent-level of things. Powered by what they call their Wave-Master system, it has no compressed-air, hydraulics or pneumatics. The first waves for this system began in 2009 when a British physicist named John Baxendale unveiled his new wave-making system through a “Search for the Perfect

Olas Olas uses a stacking module system similar to Cove wave-generation with differences on the patent-level of things. Powered by ...Continue ›

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How the Xing Feng wave pool works

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Xing Feng Extreme A giant foil runs down a track to produce waves on the right and left sides of a central pier. The Chinese Government is backing this design to train athletes for the Olympics so it’s unknown as to how far this design will extend commercially to the rest of the world. The pool is a 700-meter long

Xing Feng Extreme A giant foil runs down a track to produce waves on the right and left sides of ...Continue ›

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How Barr+Wray (and Whitewater’s) wave pool system works at Typhoon Lagoon

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Barr+Wray and Whitewater Barr+Wray worked in conjunction with Whitewater to produce the surf at Typhoon Lagoon (although Murphys Waves also claims credit for the Orlando pool). The system uses water to displace water - incredibly effective but not very precise - in the creation of waves. It’s a setup that works like the world’s first surf park, Big Surf in

Barr+Wray and Whitewater Barr+Wray worked in conjunction with Whitewater to produce the surf at Typhoon Lagoon (although Murphys Waves also ...Continue ›

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How the Murphys Waves system works

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Murphys Waves Murphys (no apostrophe) system works in the classic pump-and-dump fashion. Water fills tanks in the deep end of the pool and is then released in sequence to create the desired wave shape and size. That wave then moves out from the narrow end of the pool into a wide bay, expanding and weakening as it travels. Murphys Waves

Murphys Waves Murphys (no apostrophe) system works in the classic pump-and-dump fashion. Water fills tanks in the deep end of ...Continue ›

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How Holland’s Surf Poel system works

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Surf Poel The Dutch indoor wave pool project SurfPoel is fast under construction and hopes to open shortly. Although we couldn’t pin down a specific launch date, from the looks of the social media feed from parent company 24/7 waves, it looks like it won’t be long once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in The Netherlands. When completed the converted warehouse

Surf Poel The Dutch indoor wave pool project SurfPoel is fast under construction and hopes to open shortly. Although we ...Continue ›

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Alfatech/Surfpark Resort, Sao Paulo

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Surf Park Resort/Alfatech SurfPark Resort is a water park specializing in wave pools for surfing. The company was created in 2015 and is now headed by Fabio Ferraz who says their focus is to bring the Brazilian beach vibe to the world through wave pools. The company stated they have partnered with Bex Global to bring their technology to a

Surf Park Resort/Alfatech SurfPark Resort is a water park specializing in wave pools for surfing. The company was created in ...Continue ›

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