In 2000, Chevron spent $550,000 on a giant V-shaped pile of sandbags dropped into the ocean near El Segundo, California. This was supposed to be an artificial reef meant to make up for a wave ...

While wave pools may be the manmade surfing development du jour, there’s other synthetic wave-making avenues out there that are gaining some steam. For instance, an artificial reef in Western ...

New Zealand artificial surfing reef goes offImagine a long, white sandy beach. Somewhere pretty and fringed with green hills, where the water's blue and there's girls and guys hanging out on the ...

With climate change leading to coral bleaching on a massive scale, artificial reefs such as old shipwrecks may serve as an unlikely hero.

Richard K. Davis Construction of Fort Pierce will help Johannsen make the artificial reef modules. St. Lucie County will have the modules monitored with potential help from Troop 420 and Florida ...

I went to a presentation by Michael Foley, a coastal engineer, about preventing coastal erosion and I think we should say yes to protect our beaches from erosion by building artificial reefs ...

Fogg’s team told Destin High School if they can raise $10,000, the county will match it to build 10 artificial reefs and deploy them in the Gulf of Mexico. “They’re very excited about it.

It was already a spot known to the surfing folk of the Dorset coast but the artificial reef was going to make Boscombe a national surf destination.

A proposal in Western Australia has resurrected the artificial surfing reef. Is it a win-win for waves and marine diversity, or surfing’s escalator to nowhere?

However, with the amalgamation of multiple purposes, the designed reef needs more sophistication than that required for coastal protection only. High-quality computer modelling, field datasets on ...