Patent ID: 8496403

Claim:
A wave generating system having first and second bodies of water therein, comprising: a channel located adjacent said first body of water on which said second body of water is located; a wave generator capable of traveling through said channel in a first direction to help lift up a portion of said second body of water and create primary waves; a device for causing said second body of water to flow through said channel at a predetermined speed in a second direction opposite said first direction, wherein an absolute speed of said wave generator traveling in said first direction relative to said channel is reduced without substantially affecting a net speed at which said wave generator travels relative to said second body of water; and wherein said channel has a floor that is higher relative to a floor of said first body of water adjacent said channel, wherein the floor of said first body of water adjacent said channel forms a substantially deep water environment, such that as the wave generator travels through said channel and generates the primary waves, energy and water effects created by the primary waves are released into said first body of water, wherein swells and secondary waves are created within said first body of water that travel across said first body of water toward an inclined shoreline.