{"id":144897,"date":"2018-08-31T16:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T23:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=144897"},"modified":"2018-08-31T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T23:53:33","slug":"inflatable-surf-reef-may-be-installed-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=144897","title":{"rendered":"Inflatable surf reef may be installed in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Bunbury, in Western Australia, has approved the installation of the world&#8217;s first inflatable surf reef at Back Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Bottegal, the inventor of Airwave, wants to deploy a 12-meter round inflatable dome on the ocean floor, and in shallow waters. The two-meter high bubble will help create perfect waves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ten years ago, I sat at my local beach. Staring sadly at\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/14550-inflatable-surf-reef-may-be-installed-in-western-australia?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surf+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Bunbury, in Western Australia, has approved the installation of the world&#8217;s first inflatable surf reef at Back Beach. Troy Bottegal, the inventor of Airwave, wants to deploy a 12-meter round inflatable dome on the ocean floor, and in shallow waters. The two-meter high bubble will help create perfect waves. &#8220;Ten years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144898,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144897\/revisions\/144898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}