Australian inventor Troy Bottegal has started a campaign in the Kickstarter website to raise approximately $127.000, which will be used to install a prototype artificial reef, which seeks to turn completely closing waves into perfect tubular triangles.

The invention, called Airwave, is a huge inflatable, twelve metres in diameter and two metres high at its highest point, which seeks to imitate the bottom of a surf break, as if it were a natural reef.

According to its inventor, it is made of nature-safe materials and is designed to have minimal adverse impact, promoting the formation of new sandbanks and preventing wave erosion.

“My invention means more waves in more places,” Bottegal said on the Kickstarter website. “For example, six Airwaves can be installed along a beach, in about 14 days. That’s six new waves in two weeks (…) It’s obvious that the benefits of Airwaves are to dramatically reduce crowds at the waves.”

This invention is the result of ten years of research and has been tested on a scale of 1:20 in fresh and salt water bodies. The first installation is expected to be ready in March 2019 in Bunbury, Western Australia.