…oh you'll never guess where!
What did we do before the miracle of the internet? Before we could jam hither and yon, sharing information with the punch of a key?
For a few hours this morn, it looked like the entire world was pushed up against their laptop and phone screens, gobbling up the just-loosed video of Kelly Slater’s wave pool.
Of course, the short is low on details, Kelly choosing to eschew all references and details. Whereupon Reddit, that fabulous online bulletin board full of devoted keyboard jockeys, filled in the blanks.
Street views, satellite views, anecdotal evidence, comparison of trees, of buildings.
From stuftup: “Basically gonna confirm its the lake on the right – the one under construction in the google aerial map. Check the building styles from the street view and the screencap: http://imgur.com/a/dFfc3
Hell, the building in the background of the screencap where you can see the two rollup doors on the left side may be the same one from the street view.“
From Weatherhaboob: “It think we found it boys! I don’t like blowing up spots but this is different. I really think this is it.”
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So people aren’t thinking they’ll be able to surf this are they? I’d say some of Kelly’s buddies are definitely going to get a run – Rob Machado is probably there now. But no one else will until they roll out a commercial version in say 2 years from now.
AAhhhh 100 Miles from the coast!!!! Got it… I will drive this weekend from San Diego to confirm… https://www.google.com/maps…
Report back please!
Kelly loves Golf… There’s the Phoenix Sunrise Golf Course to the right side of the map… https://www.google.com/maps…
The wave pool is the one that is under construction in Google maps. The wave making apparatus is most likely moved/towed/driven down (south) along the right side of the pool where the nice long flat stretch of concrete is.
Also, if you look carefully at the under-construction pool, you can see that the ground is being graded such that there is a steep ridge down the middle of the pool. With the wave going south, this ridge causes the wave to continuously break straight down the center as the wave continuously goes from deeper to shallower water.
It is actually a very brilliant design.
During the construction in Google maps, the breaks in the center ridge are visible for the grading equipment to move between deeper and shallower sides without having to go all the way around; I am sure that these were filled in as grading was completed.
This may not be exactly right, but I am sure that its close.
Great assessment! If you look at Bing Maps both pools are filled, and that concrete runway with the segmented posts that’s visible on Google Maps is completely submerged. I think you’re spot on with your assumption that it’s the wave making apparatus. I’d love to know how the technology works.
Well, that explains the iced tea colored water
Billy Kemper, Mason Ho’s masturbation claim, Mick, Bede’s pelvis, de Souza and now this. It’s been a great fortnight.
Simpsons did it first.
Derek, check the deets: http://imgur.com/a/HI2Ng
Nice work, Magnum PI must have been on the case
so crazy that people know how to do this stuff
…oh, that was impressive!
Wow AWESOME!!
A wave pool’s a bit of a stretch for miscellaneous residential zoning, surely. The Council won’t approve my new road access, yet Kelly can build a wave pool.
It’s out in the country. Not even in city limits by quite a bit.
Thank you Cys.
It’s a good thing those dweebs took a break from planning school shootings to do something productive.
that’s 4chan, kook
U mad?
Come for the waves, stay for the meth and racism.
It’s in CA, not Hawaii.
When I saw that this morning I thought it had to be here in CA somewhere… It’s a good thing it’s not a left because I’d crash Kelly’s party real fast.
I’ll handle it for you, Charlie.
fuck you don’t reveal secrets of someone’s job… it’s not your business
What are you on about? Its not some secret spot, what are you worried about, do you think everyone is going to go there and wait until they turn the machine on. You think there is no security there? If you haven’t been paying attention there has been much hand wringing on this website over the past few days about whether it is right to reveal secrets, in this case this is solid Pulitzer prize winning journalism. Kelly can’t make a cent off this if nobody knows where it is, and he will want to make more than a few cents!
Exactly. Also, there’s a good chance no one will be paying to surf at this location and it will only ever be used as a testing facility.
Where is it, could it be – could it be just down the road? No of course not, not even on the same continent. Fresno eh, I’ll just have to stick with onshore slop at the local beach tomorrow, you have ruined my weekend Derek!
Trust me, this is not the first time Fresno has ruined someone’s weekend.
Touché!