Other deep pools are:
* Nemo 33 in Brussels, Belgium
* Y-40 "The Deep Joy" in Padua, Italy
Other deep pools are:
* Nemo 33 in Brussels, Belgium
* Y-40 "The Deep Joy" in Padua, Italy
Now we just need a good scuba diving park and there's no need to visit the coasts ever again!
Word is that they're going to start opening up reservations for full-day events, sometime this year. Maybe $30k for the day (but that's just a guess). One wave every four minutes. 7 hours in the day. You can bring a dozen friends and surf until your arms (and legs, because the rides can be a full minute long) are noodles. Or you can bring 30 friends and still get eight or ten waves for the day.
After being lucky enough to tag along to a group that surfed there last year, I've spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking about what my income level would have to be for the $30k to seem like a "reasonable" outlay, once a year. The answer is "a lot lower than is sensible." It's a clean, head-high face, a super-fast down the line wave, and two legit barrel sections. Better than the best waves anywhere on the California coast outside of a handful of days a year.
Of course, $30k is just the entry level option. They are starting to think about licensing the plans and tech. For maybe $10M you could build your own! (No idea what it costs to run it per year.)
There are “wave gardens” in other places too, one in England and one in Spain I think. But I still haven’t figured out how to visit any of them...
But thanks a lot for the info, now it makes more sense!