Saltwater matters!
I’m going to be completely honest here. Totally and completely honest. Wave tanks are totally and utterly disgusting and the tragic death from brain-eating amoebas should be the end of all of them, even if the brain-eating amoebas came from hotel hot tubs, and by all of them I mean all the freshwater inland ones, not that there is any other kind.
Kelly Slater and the WSL should head up to Lemoore with flamethrowers strapped to backs. Pete Coors, owner of NLand, should rent a B-52 bomber for the day. BSR Cable Park in Waco should ignite the thing with napalm. The United States Senate etc. should stop jibber jabbering about Supreme Court nominations for one second and craft laws that ban them unless they happen to be touching the ocean and sharing water with the ocean like all those gorgeous Australian swimming pools.
Otherwise it’s over.
It’s a wrap.
I truly don’t care if the brain-eating amoeba in the tragic case of New Jersey victim came from a hot tub or local hotel swimming pool or local hotel bathtub.
All the wave pools thus far are fucking disgusting wastes of water in places that shouldn’t be wasting water. And the water they are wasting is totally suspect to begin with, begging for issues if not today then tomorrow and if not tomorrow then the next day.
They are unnatural abominations and we laughed at God for a minute but the giggles are over and it is time to pull the plug.
It’s just my opinion, of course, but how will the problems be fixed in Lemoore and in Waco and most of all in Austin? Public swimming pools are gross. No one has ever questioned the grossness of public swimming pools yet they are tiny and easy to filter unlike giant repurposed waterski lakes.
And the worst is yet to come.
Austin is the grossest, in my mind. Lots of indy music over there. Lots of “artists.” Lots of population and a shitty wave to boot. Ugh.
But back to those gorgeous Australian swimming pools, the ones that share water with the ocean, that’s where wave pools should be built. In places that don’t have waves but have ocean. It would solve all the problems at once and especially the brain-eating bacteria ones.
So that’s my final position. I didn’t become a bass fisherman because I’m already suspect of freshwater. Saltwater matters and now we know it. Saltwater is an amazing. Saltwater is why we do what we do and who knew? Or I suppose we all did. We all knew or at least I did. The times I’ve been on houseboats or waterski boats or lake fishing boats and someone always developed some sort of gross eye infection.
Ugh.
I literally loathe freshwater unless it’s a fast running river or I’m drinking it from a fancy bottle.
We should have all known when these damned perfect barrels snatched our eyes, infections looming. We should have known.
Freshwater is gross.
Saltwater matters.
And that is that.
YES!
Kelly is trying to empty the oceans for us , creating a better life , where becoming a K-tub poolie , will become the Holy Grail for all surfers to achieve fame and fortune and endless Joy , without the idea of having to rely on the fickle finger of fate , called nature.
I strongly disagree with Chad the future is the pool , lots of them , empty the oceans , fill the pools…..make $’s by doing so , where’s the downside in more people in pools less people in the ocean?
“So, do you want to come over to my place? We’re going to have a bbq, then cruise down to my private wavepool and watch the eels make wild, passionate love”.
Chat up lines for the rich and famous in the 2020’s.
There was a sandbag one at Narrowneck on the Gold Coast, but it fell apart due to the random action of waves coming from a variety of different angles. Without knowing a lot of the details, it would seem hard to allow for the range of swell direction at a beach break with, potentially, 120+ degrees of options.Given the effect 5 degrees difference can have on even perfect waves, like Grajagan for example, it’s a finicky science. Then you’d end up with every clown going to the same bank anyway depending on swell direction, which would be remarkably similar to the wavepool expereince…
My first duck dive: As a toe head pre-grom in birdwell’s “late 70’s” there was a lake with diving boards, metal slides of various heights and steepness, including swings. All over water, called “Club Lake Ahoy.” Getting the courage to conquer a pre Derek Hynd inspired steel chute. Pushing from the top went complete airborne landing in the transition with steel drum thud and swoosh before sliding into the air. Terror turns to exhilaration and crazy smile before splashing down in coolness of a lake. No hold down pulling my birdwall’s towards Davie’s locker. Shaking the water from a real bowl cut, my eyes catch a light brown blurred object with in arms distance. Complete laser focus now object teeter tottering on the small swells created by lake goers. Panic! Treading water to gain distance, but the eddy created by my arm movement brought the turd closer. As the floating turd made a b-line to my bobbing neck and chin I couldn’t scream. My last arm movement was more up than away. I was able to slide under a real shit torpedo. My first duck dive!
I dunno about banning etc but there was some Waco guy on Facebook blaming the whole thing on leftist media.
I’m guessing he’s Team Pentecostal.
One of the best public pools in the US is in your PNW! Colman Pool, in West Seattle, 50 m saltwater pool right on Puget Sound. Park and walk through the park to get there. Too bad it’s only open during the summer.
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I think they will die of their own accord. I went to the Austin one and my call was ‘this’ll be shuttered in 5 years.’ I’m sticking with that. Lotta novelty customers at the beginning (both surfers flying to visit and non-surfer residents) that aren’t going to become a steady market. It’s a big enough leap to go from non-surfer to surfer if you live by the coast. People aren’t going to become surfers on the basis of $100 a pop for a weird facsimile of surfing. They’ll go once a year. And people aren’t super stoked on the comps, either. So this thing will sputter and die.
Our ocean water is currently contaminated with floodwater and most people are staying out.
The read was worth seeing the classic Babe Ruth image… legendary picture.
yeah
Ya know… you can get sick from dirty seawater too.
In fact even ‘clean’ seawater has umpteen gazillions of microbes per whatsit.
Just sayin.
In the future, the wealthy will create personal wave pools containing beer, wine, or the salty-sweet tears of their indentured labourers.
I don’t swim in them. I do sometimes wade in the shallow end and relieve my bladder.
what did you cats write about before wave pools?
God I hope BG doesn’t fracture over wave tubs.
You’re right. There’s barely any money in pools, but there is completely reverse money in artificial reefs.
have they been tried? Me and a buddy were trying to figure out how many sand bags we would need to get one going on a mean ass beach we visit/he lives at… I mean for surfing too.
Yes, “they” have tried. A couple times if I remember correctly. In virtually every instance the swell action destroys them almost immediately.
Isn’t there a new one in the trialling phase? Big rubber thing?
Your mom has been using one of those for years.
She’s giving it up for Kai’s carrot
thats what i wondered, rubber tires with concrete inside of them or something there about?
Big weighted rubber blob to imitate a sandbank.
Allegedly comparatively cheap compared to other efforts, and will apparently stay put…
Two minds about it tbh
maybe recycle a bunch of plastic and encase it in rubber tire like material? drop them all over the beaches about 100 meters out of low tide and watch the sand change? make long period swell sing?? I am not a physicist, but I am sure there is anecdotal evidence around
Surfing is so selectively environmental.
Koresh Finally Has His Revenge On US Government After Long Dormant Waco Amoeba Strain Unleashes Wave of Brain Eating Surf Zombies
How will we know if surfers have had their brains eaten?
ask Ben Markarse ?
Are you saying he’s surfed Waco and gone wacko?