The Wave Bristol will have more space to play with, and though the precise effect of this extra space is still to some degree uncertain, it won’t be for much longer – bookings are now open for surfers and would-be surfers of all abilities. The Cove can generate waves of superior quality and with far greater frequency, but the only version currently in existence is the scaled-down prototype in the Basque Country.
It’s a radically different mechanism to the one used at Surf Snowdonia. The pool is a 200 x 200m manmade lake in Bristol’s rural outskirts as for the waves, they’ll be supplied by the Basque engineering company Wavegarden, whose new technology is called the Cove. Photo: Tom GriffithsĪ brave new world of wave pools and surfing lagoons is here – and The Wave Bristol, which opens to the public this November, looks set to position the UK as one of the great powers within it.
Nick Hounsfield, on-site at The Wave Bristol before construction began.
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