City Surfing

Set to open in 2011, this project will be the world’s first outdoor artificial surfing machine - and will be constructed in A discarded dock in East London. The aim of the project, obviously, is to give city dwellers a local place to surf - saving them the trip to the coast.

Proposed by Steve Jones, some crazy ‘adventure sports’ ninja, the wave machine can “be set to make the surf break left and right from a central peak, allowing surfers to ride comfortably without fear of collision - a hazard which plagues the increasingly crowded breaks in Devon and Cornwall. Floodlit surfing and screens highlighting riders’ best moves aim to attract an estimated 100,000 surfers and body-boarders a year, as well as half a million spectators”. My ninjas, please! Sounds like a video game.

As a side note, the project is being backed by David Taylor - who is also building 5,000 new homes in the area, and Biota!, the Terry Farrelldesigned aquarium that will replicate life in the Amazon in a tank the size of 12 Olympic swimming pools