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Cool! Other deep pools are: * Nemo 33 in Brussels, Belgium * Y-40 "The Deep Joy" in Padua, Italy
by muloka 8y ago
Cool!
Other deep pools are:
* Nemo 33 in Brussels, Belgium
* Y-40 "The Deep Joy" in Padua, Italy
- dontbenebby 8y agoAll of these pools are in the EU. As Americans, we cannot allow a deep-pool gap!
- chrisco255 8y agoAgreed. I'd love to see one in Texas. We've already got artificial surf parks: https://www.bsrcablepark.com/cable-park/texas-surf-park-bsr-surf-park/ https://www.bsrcablepark.com/cable-park/texas-surf-park-bsr-... Now we just need a good scuba diving park and there's no need to visit the coasts ever again!
- kwindla 8y ago[crocodile dundee accent] That's not an artificial surf park, this is an artificial surf park: http://www.kswaveco.com/ http://www.kswaveco.com/
- taormina 8y agoWrong time of year, but for the Austin, TX crowd: http://nlandsurfpark.com/ http://nlandsurfpark.com/
- Grustaf 8y agoYes but how to visit? The website doesn’t even say where it is! Shut up and take my money!
- kwindla 8y agoI know, right? For now, you have to know somebody who knows somebody who knows Kelly. :-) Word is that they're going to start opening up reservations for full-day events, sometime this year. Maybe $30k for the day (but that's just a guess). One wave every four minutes. 7 hours in the day. You can bring a dozen friends and surf until your arms (and legs, because the rides can be a full minute long) are noodles. Or you can bring 30 friends and still get eight or ten waves for the day. After being lucky enough to tag along to a group that surfed there last year, I've spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking about what my income level would have to be for the $30k to seem like a "reasonable" outlay, once a year. The answer is "a lot lower than is sensible." It's a clean, head-high face, a super-fast down the line wave, and two legit barrel sections. Better than the best waves anywhere on the California coast outside of a handful of days a year. Of course, $30k is just the entry level option. They are starting to think about licensing the plans and tech. For maybe $10M you could build your own! (No idea what it costs to run it per year.)
- Grustaf 8y agoHm, for 30k I can build a cablepark, my brother just got a quote. A 2.0 cable but still, I wakeskate so for me it’s perfect. There are “wave gardens” in other places too, one in England and one in Spain I think. But I still haven’t figured out how to visit any of them... But thanks a lot for the info, now it makes more sense!
- brlcad 8y agoThe DoD has one 150 ft deep at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD: the Underwater Explosive Test Facility aka "Super Pond".
- dontbenebby 8y agothey don't have very good customer service though, I stopped by and they shouted at me!
- brlcad 8y agoIn fairness, there’s the whole you-just-might-die aspect. They’re shouting from experience.