Shapeshifting – The art of hand-making surfboards
The development of artificial surfing reefs
ASR website
New Zealand company ASR (Amalgamates Solutions and Research) is a leading company in global multi-purpose artificial surfing reef development.
www.asrltd.co.nz/
The site incorporates a comprehensive 'Downloads' section which inclues:
- Artificial surfing reefs: Questions and Answers
www.asrltd.co.nz/downloads/Reefs/reef general/reefq&a.pdf - Reefs for coastal protection – are they just a fad or a sustainable solution which meet modern shifts in social attitudes and policies?
www.asrltd.co.nz/downloads/Reefs/reef general/Littoral2004 paper.pdf - Design of low-crested (submerged) structures – an overview
www.asrltd.co.nz/downloads/Reefs/reef general/DesignLowCrestedStructures.pdf
Reef company making waves worldwide
Surf's up for Raglan company Artificial Surf Reefs, and so is business
New Zealand Herald article November 2007
www.nzherald.co.nz/surfing/news/article.cfm?c_id=91&objectid=10353883
Making waves
Unlimited online article 2004
www.unlimited.net.nz/unlimited.nsf/UNID/4442D2A5D03E54F3CC256EED0076D2A9
Protection of Surfing Breaks
The current literature on ASRs has primarily focussed on reef shape and its role in creating surfing waves. However, this study suggests that impacts to the offshore bar, beach-state, scour hole and surf zone hydrodynamics should all be included in future surfing reef designs. More real world reef studies, including ongoing monitoring of existing surfing reefs are required to validate theoretical concepts in the published literature.
Waikato University publication 2008
http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20080806.195651/
Material relating to the development or proposed development of artificial reefs at Lyall Bay, Opunaki, Orewa and Mount Maunganui includes:
Lyall Bay Surf reef proposal
www.lyallbayreef.org.nz/
www.wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/meetings/committee/Strategy_and_Policy/2005/21Jun0915/pdf/a_lyallbaysurfreef.pdf
www.wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/meetings/committee/Planning_and_Performance/2002/24Jun0915/pdf/851_12.pdf
www.captimes.co.nz/news/32/n/1150/Outlookbleakforsurfreef.boss
SURFERS want to know why the Wellington City Council is prepared to support a multi million dollar bypass "that doesn't work" but unprepared to spend two million dollars on a surf reef that all surfers want and will use.
Capital Times article March 2007
"Surf's Up – An Artificial Reef at Lyall Bay?"
www.tki.org.nz/r/ncea/geo3_6Bv1_10feb02.pdf
NCEA Geography Level 3 assessment task using Lyall Bay Surf reef proposal as a context
Opunake Surf reef information
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/1395634
Taranaki Daily News, February 2009
www.stuff.co.nz/environment/373562
April 2008
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/1392260
February 2009
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/features/775660
December 2008
www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/804633/Opunake-reef-needs-fine-spell
January 2009
A range of news articles from stuff.co.nz
Orewa Surf reef information
www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/291241
www,stuff.co.nz Feb 08
www.surf.co.nz/news/local/news.asp?newsletterId=2924&archive=1514
Surf.co.nz website
Mount Maunganui Surf reef information
www.mountreef.co.nz/
Mount Maunganui Surf reef webs site . Includes web cam photos
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10554007
New Zealand Herald article January 2009
Mount Maunganui Surf Reef – is it worth the money?
http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/your-views/2009/1/29/mt-maunganuis-15m-artificial-surf-reef-waste-money/?c_id=1501154
Mt Maunganui's $1.5 million artificial surf reef, branded as fickle by its designers, has been virtually ignored by Bay surfers since it was completed last June.
New Zealand Herald article January 2009
