WAVE-BREAKING ARTIFICIAL REEFS

FRONT PAGE INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES METHODS OF ANALYSIS HARBORING-AQUATIC-LIFE ARTIFICIAL REEFS WAVE-BREAKING ARTIFICIAL REEFS CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES

Wave-Breaking Artificial Reefs: Two sites were analyzed for wave-breaking potential (click on link to find out more about each site): 1) Gran Domicus Hotel, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2) El Segundo, California, U.S.A. These sites differ dramatically in the method in which they were analyzed. The Gran Domicus Hotel example is a more empirical observation of what a wave-breaking artificial reef can do to a beach. The El Segundo project has yet to be built, so a computer analysis has been performed. Each is expected to be long-term successes.