Incorporating high-quality surfing breaks into multi-purpose reefs
- Author
- Mead ST
- Year
- 2000
- Journal / Source
- PhD
- Publisher / Organisation
- University of Waikato
- Pages
- 260 pp
- Summary
- The studies presented in this thesis have focussed on surfing. Bathymetries, aerial photographs and wave vortex information at natural surfing breaks were measured and collected. These data were applied to understand the morphology that creates world-class surfing reefs, to predict wave-breaking intensity and to develop a dataset of surfing breaks (seabed bathymetries, peel angles and wave vortex shapes). In addition, the results were applied to the production of a coastal resource consent to construct a multipurpose reef at Mount Maunganui Beach in north-eastern New Zealand.