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| Wave Brake Modular Floating Breakwaters (Wave Attenuators) were developed to solve beach front protection problems in the Great Lakes Area. The designer of the system had spent many years performing beach protection and remediation efforts using the more traditional techniques that were based on the use of Rock and Rubble. That technique works, but is costly for the user. When the requisite rock is not close by, it must be quarried, transported to the coastline or offshore and carefully positioned. After performing this costly and tedious process for several years, he concluded that there was a better technique. The "Wave Brake" system is a configuration of scientifically shaped modules which simulate the overall shape and form of the "Rock Breakwaters". The modules are manufactured under precise quality controlled procedures in a carefully selected rotary molding facility. They are hollow and relatively easy to transport to the final location where they are then assembled into sections that are towed out to the offshore location for installation. The sections are moored in a configuration that has been determined to be the most effective for the protection required for that particular site. Lower modules are ballasted down below the surface by "Free Flooding" and the upper modules are kept buoyant at the surface to hold the sections in the proper orientation. The technique of assembling the floating sections out of modules and anchoring the completed assemblies, provides several advantages over "Rock Breakwaters". These include:
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