SURF REEF: we still back spa project (From Bournemouth Echo)

Mark Smith, head of tourism,'estimated the reef has generated £12 million worth of good publicity so far'.
What cost does he put on the bad publicity it has created in his Fantasy Land of Leisure?!

It is ironic that the reef has generated £12m which is virtually the same figure as it has cost. In fact the cost so far is what, £11.1m, plus and extra £1.8m, that means there is still nearly £1m to generate to get the cost back. Balls springs to mind here. A lot more money needs to be generated, and a lot more needs to be done to get Boscombe back on track. Boscombe Management do not want to be led into a false claim by these people. You will suffer further.

What price would Mark Smith put on the negative publicity when the **** hits the fans and this fiasco hits the nationals.

Maybe a bit more investigative journalism may unearth how some are a bit more involved in this deal that saw a healthy chunk of real estate handed over to developers.

Surf reef ?

A mere distraction from the real scam !

Have you not spotted the Friday 13th syndrome ?
FIVE "stories" abour a non-existent (gr)reef posted at (almost) one minute intervals: 0831,0833,0834,0836,

0837

I thought it must be 1st April !

Mark Cribb, owner of the Urban Beach Hotel, which recently underwent a £1.2m refurbishment, said: “Frankly, I think whether the project costs £10m or £20m will pale into insignificance, once Boscombe can stand tall and proud again.

Well then Mark Cribb can pay for the project himself!!!

I didn't see any thanks to the Bournemouth people whose Council Tax is being sqandered on the reef fiasco!!

we have little choice than make the best out of the circumstances.
But that doesn't mean we will see the 250k pound initial estimate reef provide us with the double days of double size surf when a knee high wave is amplified by this reef to an overhead wave. These words came from ASR and were publicly voiced by their local supporters and then as everyone in Europe will also want a reef we tripped over ourselves to be the first.

The real marine professionals are weeing their pants laughing at how gullible we have been and each look at the other saying "logistics and professional contractual arrangements " have met new levels of benchmarks are being called "the Bournemouth scale" of achievement comparism.

so that's what the first reef in Europe has achieved in history and posterity.

Lets see how low it will go when the waves start attracting everybody from Europe to stay and surf awhile.

achievement in the water will have text books quoting what happened. People will just leave it off their CV's as an achievement that meets everyday construction ordinary success standards.

oh isn't that what the world has been telling us ?

I found this on
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can anyone comment on these two quotes from one of ASR's directors.

1. http:/www.abc.net.au
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Narration: Kerry is currently involved in designing and constructing dozens of artificial reefs all over the world. The Mount Maunganui reef in New Zealand is a good example of a small reef built especially for pushing up surfing waves.

Kerry: The thing about surfing reefs is that you need a very precise surface because if the reef is full of bumps the wave gets all these ugly discontinuities on the wave face and it really upsets the surfing wave.

Narration: Incredibly, the construction process Kerry developed to build Mount Reef made it plan accurate to within ten centimetres.

And yes, the locals are stoked with it!

2. a title for a paper given at a mini symposium at the University of Queensland by the same person.

"why are artificial surfing reefs proving to be so popular? Because they are just a damm good idea"

I am hearing something different on this site from these two widely circulated views from someone concerned with the reefs designers/supervisor
s/project managers/builders or whatever role they played directing

its worth a visit as it well desplays that mt manganui has everyone 'stoked" and artificial surfing reefs are just obviously so popular becasue they are such a damm good idea

from the "times on line"

"More than £10m from the Indian government’s Tsunami Rehabilitation Programme has been allocated to areas that were not affected by the tsunami. Kerala Tourism has disguised the diversion of the funds as “coastal protection” in an attempt to quell local outrage, but the works consist almost entirely of extravagant construction projects designed to maximise the profit potential of the once sleepy resort of Kovalam.

One of these projects is the construction of an artificial surf reef that has been designed to increase the size of the waves hitting the coast. Local opposition groups claim that turning the bay into a playground for westerners will put 500 fishermen out of work and put fish breeding grounds at risk."

http://www.timesonli
ne.co.uk/tol/travel/
news/article4921034.
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