Surf's up at the local swimming pool
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
'If a surfer one day tells you he learnt to do a Pipeline Break in Iowa, Switzerland or Kazakhstan, don't laugh - it may soon become a reality.
New Zealand researchers have devised a shape-shifting rubber reef that can be fitted to the floor of a swimming pool and, with the help of a wave machine, generates surf as mighty as any in Hawaii, California or Queensland, New Scientist magazine says.
The innovation, Versareef, is the fruit of two companies, ASR and Surf Pools, which spent five years surveying the best reefs in the Pacific to find out which seabed characteristics generate the best surf.
They then adapted the knowledge for the swimming pool...'
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