In an article in Australian Surfing Life about the announcement of a wave pool in Queesland set to open in September 2015, Greg Webber of Webber Wave Pools said:
"If this is successful, the next two pools will be in South Africa, near Cape Town, and in Florida. Both of those are pretty far along, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you start seeing announcements coming out soon."
For the Australian project, it has been reported that Webber signed a memorandum of understanding with surfing entrepreneur David Baird for the company’s first installation at a site in Southeast Queensland on a property owned by Baird
While one wonders at how popular a wave pool will be in Cape Town, which is not known as the Cape of Storms for nothing, there is the water park / fairground element that will open surfing to a whole new demographic of candy floss-touting, baseball cap wearing pundits.
The Webber wave design depicts a circular 'moat' that features endless breaking waves, or a rectangular shape also with continuous waves, but it's unclear what type of design has been mooted for Cape Town, and there has been no confirmation from our side about whether it's going ahead. The latest rectangular design (see video below) features four waves every 20 seconds, or 720 waves per hour. Watch this space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYf8uefveY
Source: Wavescape
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