A Yallingup man believes his invention has the ability to transform the South West surf scene. Businessman and avid surfer, Troy Bottegal, is the man behind Waveco’s Airwave inflatable surf reefs and is poised to install the world’s first at the Bunbury’s Back Beach in January. Mr Bottegal first conceived the idea more than 10 years ago…
Kickstarter campaign for the world’s first-ever inflatable reef. Last week we published a story about the Airwave, an inflatable reef concept, which, according to its inventor, Troy Bottegal, has the potential to turn closeout beach-breaks into barrelling A-frames. Troy now has approval from Bunbury council in Western Australia to install one of his dome-shaped inflatable reefs…
Bunbury has an array of great beaches. However, if surfer Troy Bottegal gets his way, surfing at them may be about to become a whole lot better. Mr Bottegal has invented an inflatable surf reef, the AIRWAVE, and is in talks with the Bunbury council to have one installed under the water at Back Beach. It’s…
There are thousands of miles of coastline where mother-nature already does half the work ie; provides swell. ‘Airwave’, inflatable reef concept has the capacity to radically transform the way surfers interact with coastlines. In a nutshell, the Airwave is a self-anchoring, inflatable dome that can be installed in under two days. The Airwave, ten years…