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SwellMFG wave pool
Photo: Revel Surf
Surf Lagoon Technology

Every SwellMFG Surf Park

2 installations, 1 open and bookable. Counts and prices come straight from our park records, so this list changes as the parks do.

WAVE HEIGHT
1 to 6ft, adjustable
WAVES PER HOUR
Roughly 10 to 12 per surfer, in sessions capped at 16 surfers
TYPICAL BUILD COST

No system price is publicly disclosed. Revel Surf sits inside a reported $280 million mixed-use retail and entertainment development, but that figure covers the whole complex, not the wave system alone.

HOW IT WORKS

SwellMFG uses 21 mechanical wave boards sequenced by software rather than air pressure or paddles. Its defining feature is a genuine A-frame: a left and a right peel simultaneously from the same center point, so regular-footers and goofy-footers both ride frontside in the same session. Sessions at Revel Surf cap at 16 surfers, eight per side, generating roughly 10 to 12 waves per surfer an hour.

BACKGROUND

SwellMFG has no single public headquarters, run instead by a distributed team of engineers and surfers: executive director and co-inventor Matthew Gunn is based in Phoenix, Arizona; brand lead Shane Beschen on Oahu's North Shore; and engineering lead John Bushey in Minneapolis. No public founding date has been confirmed. The company's first and so far only installation is Revel Surf in Mesa, Arizona.

SwellMFG photo
Photo: Revel Surf
SwellMFG photo
Photo: Revel Surf
SwellMFG photo
Rendering: Cannon Beach