Coachella Valley Wavegarden

Coachella Valley Wavegarden

Plans to build a Wavegarden Cove wave park in California´s Coachella Valley received unanimous approval from the City of Palm Desert.

This project is the first of many new Wavegardens planned for the Americas, consolidating Wavegarden´s leadership in the surf park sector. Promoters Desert Wave Ventures and Beach Street Development are behind this innovative surf resort featuring North America’s first Wavegarden Cove, a 4 Diamond hotel, villas with views of the waves, restaurants, and beach club.

DSRT Surf is slated to be the first Wavegarden Cove surf park built in the United States of America after plans were unanimously approved by the City of Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley. Wavegarden´s technology will comprise a 52-module wave generator and a fully integrated surfing lagoon.

DSRT Surf is implementing a unique “turf for surf” program to offset all surf lagoon water use by converting 20 acres of turf on the adjacent golf courses to drought tolerant landscaping. The surf program will use the same amount of water as the golf course area being removed, making it a “net zero” water consumption operation.

On top of world-class waves, the resort will also feature a 92 room hotel, 83 residential villas with water views, a beach club and spa, together with pickleball courts, a pump track, restaurants and bars.

According to the development plans, construction on the surfing lagoon will soon commence and completion is scheduled for the end of 2023.

NIGHT, NOW OFF TO BED, SCREW THAT, LETS SURF.

NIGHT, NOW OFF TO BED, SCREW THAT, LETS SURF.

Four Australian pro surfers – Stu Kennedy, Connor O’Leary, Mitch Crews and Jackson Baker – recently trialled night surfing at Wavegarden’s demo centere in North Spain. Flood lights lit up the Wavegarden Cove like a sports arena, allowing the guys to surf from sunset to late into the night.

Stu was pretty stoked as he exited the water, exclaiming “It’s amazing just how much more ‘surf time’ we are going to have now that we can surf at night”.

Behind The Scenes 03 of Ski The World

Behind The Scenes 03 of Ski The World

Skier, yes skier Candide Thovex surfs the Wavegarden, and Surf Snowdonia, well not actually surfing, skiing. I don’t know why either, probably too much time on his hands, not enough attention as a child, something like that. Anyway, it’s quite amusing, hit play and put on those googles and salopettes.

Rip Curl team riders surf the Wavegarden Cove

Rip Curl team riders surf the Wavegarden Cove

A few months back a handful of Rip Curl team riders, led by Australian female pro surfer Nikki Van Dijk, shredded the new waves in the Wavegarden Cove. While Nikki focused on her competitive game, the rest of the Rip Curl surfers including Samuel Pupo (Brazil), Mikey McDonagh (Australia) and European groms Kyllian Guerin, Kai and Hans Odriozola concentrated on getting barreled and blasting as many airs and turns as possible.

Worlds Largest Surfing Lagoon: South Korea

Worlds Largest Surfing Lagoon: South Korea

Wavegarden Signs Contract to Build the World’s Largest Surfing Lagoon in South Korea

Development has begun on the world’s largest man-made surf park in Turtle Island, Siheung in the Gyeonggi province of South Korea. Scheduled to open in 2020, the announcement of this project was made official following the signing of a contract in November 2018 between Wavegarden and Daewon Plus Construction, one of South Korea’s largest real estate and theme park developers, in the presence of the Governor of the Province, Siheung’s City Mayor and the Secretary General of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Korea.

The formalization of this partnership comes after a year of intensive design and planning work between the two parties that led to Daewon Plus Construction being selected by the city as the preferred developer of the project in a highly competitive tender process.

Located just an hour away from Seoul, and constructed on land reclaimed from the ocean, Turtle Island is a new international waterfront destination, which will have different water and landside leisure facilities including hotels, convention centers and marinas. The centrepiece of the 2.1B€ avant-garde mixed-use development will be the Wavegarden Cove surfing lagoon. The Cove, with its enticing turquoise waters, is capable of producing up to 1000 ocean-like waves per hour, which unfurl across a range of different surfing areas. Each area offers waves of different size and power specifically designed to provide ideal conditions for everyone, from professional surfers to newcomers picking up a surfboard for the first time. Apart from riding waves, Turtle Island offers various other aquatic activities like kayaking, SUP and swimming in zones with and without waves.

Fernando Odriozola, Chief Commercial Officer of Wavegarden said: “We are delighted to be working with Daewon and to bring the incredible sport of surfing and beach lifestyle to South Korea. With consistent waves of different sizes and shapes, Turtle Island is going to be the new beach of Seoul and the place to surf for families, professional surfers, and everyone in between.”

With a beach spanning almost 1km, and the capability of hosting thousands of visitors, Turtle Island is set to become Korea’s premier surfing and water activity destination and a ‘must-visit’ for the large resident market and the 10.8m international tourists that visit the region annually.

An innovative project of this magnitude doesn’t come without highly complex challenges. Specialized technological solutions are required in wave generation, water treatment and civil works. However, after years of R&D at the demo center in Northern Spain, and having constructed many full-scale facilities, the team at Wavegarden has perfected all the essentials to design and implement a venture of this scale.

The state-of-the-art machinery can produce millions of waves per year and is designed to recover part of the energy used in the wave generation process to attain the lowest possible energy consumption.The innovative water treatment system, developed specifically for wave lagoons, will keep the water transparent and clean throughout the year. It’s intelligent design uses the energy of the waves to acquire the highest level of energy efficiency available nowadays for large recreational water bodies.

This exciting news comes at a time when two Wavegarden facilities are currently in construction in Melbourne, Australia and Bristol, England, with another 28 contracts signed and in various stages of development in 5 continents around the world.