feds considering to build artificial islands off NJ/NY

no fcking way dude. you think there is money for this? not to mention I wouldn't want to surf out there. that's well within shark infested waters.
But aside from all of that.... there would be uproar from nature lovers and the community at large.

 

WOW i hope not. . .Unless those islands produce world class surf spots! Manmade reefs, slabs, points, I can imagine it now. Hurricane off the coast, I go camp out on the islands, wait for the swell to hit and then go surf 10 foot right slabs breaking on a huge concrete reef. Similar to the slabs you see breaking on rock reefs in Ireland. Then the winds switch and I travel to the next island where they have a left point break that breaks in too the channel between both islands. Boats everywhere dropping off surfers just like Indo, except with huge white sharks, cold water, and heavy gnarly man made reef breaks. Cant wait. (Then i wake up, the islands are there, and a wave never hits the NJ coast again)

 

This is the dumbest **** I've ever heard.

Seriously, if you're that concerned about a hurricane then don't live on the f'n coast!!! We've become a nation of weather hyped pussies. Day trips for surfing? Seriously, if you can't deal with another sandy in the next 100 years, then sell your house and move. You have 100 years to find a buyer dumbass. We've really made TOO big a deal out of sandy. It's absurd. Yes houses got destroyed. That happens once in a while when you live near an open ocean.
"To protect Americans against the next big storm" Maybe we should build a 50 mile long rain umbrella canopy so homes don't get flooded from tourential downpours as well!

If that happens, say goodbye to having an open ocean in nj, which is kind of the whole point of living BY THE OCEAN....TO HAVE AN OCEAN WITH WAVES!

LOL Now I need a boat to go surfing! haha

 

What kind of crack are you smoking? Slabs? It's just some sand islands. Probably turn into shore pound with nasty longshore currents.
INDO? HAHA...YEAH, EXCEPT WITH NO SWELL. That place has head high waves 365 days a year nearly.

So you like surfing with white sharks? LOL....Darwinism I guess. Thinning out the herd of dumb people. I really want one of the shark lovers on here to please go surfing at seal island with a go pro. Maybe attach some seal meat to your wetsuit as well just for the extra "rush".

Only on swellinfo could you have someone FOR detroying every single beach break in the state of nj and turning the nj coast into a waveless stretch of coastline and basically long island sound south.

 

And what about people who enjoy going to the nj coast to play in the waves? All those beach goers that go there specifically because of open ocean waves. Surfers aren't the only ones. I'm sorry, but there's no comparison between an open ocean with waves and a salt water lake. Even just relaxing listening to them crash onto shore. Sort of like comparing ct's shoreline to ri. It's a joke.

 

Belmar, however, would still be firing 23fters 365 days a year. Lol.

 

Oh and you'd probably end up with scarping on those artifical islands. Sandbars would get taken out real quick. You'd take 2 steps off shore and end up in 20 feet of water. Waves would just surge onto the island. Nevermind everyone in nj would now have a major commute to go surfing. Sort of like having nantucket island as your local surf break when you live in newport. You're not going to be surfing as much.

 

Joking my friend, relax

 

Yea these islands cause also hurt our economy. The government could care less about waves, until they start losing money because the millions of tourists who enjoy bodyboarding, bodysurfing, and playing in the waves choose a different location for their children. Just like what happened in Mundaka when they ruined the break. They discovered 80% of the money in their town came from surf tourism.

 

and the word for the day is "BOONDOGGLE."

 

Thank god. I have no sense of humor when I see a big banana **** blocking off the entire coast of nj and I'm not even from there.

 

Quite possibly the dumbest idea I've ever heard. I can't believe these people are even discussing this.
The Jersey Shore would become one big lake full of Hudson river water, toxic.
Plus the islands would never last. They would be destroyed in no time by open ocean swell and storms.
Would be a bigger waste of money than sand replenishment.
How about the insurance companies just pay up once a lifetime for storm damage?

 

lol........

 

whoa.... hey you could get into a lot of trouble for thinking like that....
If I knew we wouldn't have a storm for 25 or 30 years I'd dump my insurance and just put a few hundred bucks a month away into a bank account and self insure!

 

#belmarstrong #don'tcountoutbelmar #donttreadonbelmar

 

Whoa...

This would obviously be no good for surfers, but they have to seriously consider options to avoid NYC and the large populations around it getting wiped out.

There has to be better solutions then this... Are we going to start building large breakwaters around the entire country? We need to make smarter more adaptable solutions then putting up a giant wall that will also erode and need constant repair.

 

It'd be outrageously expensive and terrible for us as surfers but havent they successfully done stuff like this in the netherlands?

 

There is a breakwater in the mouth of the Delaware that protects the coastal bay shore from surf erosion and surge. Its the same concept, but on an immensely bigger scale, primarily because it is off the coast in deeper water and a much bigger area.