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Sea Viper Questions  

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  1. 1. Do You Think Sea Viper is going to reopen

  2. 2. Do You or did like Sea Viper?



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Agree that Jupiters needs a MAJOR update. It really is just a casino, not an entertainment venue. I went there a couple of months ago, and it was very dated. If you're going there solely to gamble, or to see one of the shows, you could probably be occupied for a while, but I think I lasted all of about an hour, before heading back into the main strip of Broadbeach. There's a far better choice of bars and restaurants across the road.

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The height limit is in place to stop developers from turning the spit into an extension of Surfers Paradise. And it is awesome that Sea Viper has re-opened!

Thats nice for residential/commercial/hotels high rises, but Sea World as a theme park I personally think should be exempt and thats not just as a theme park fan! I think for future expansion of the park in the rides department and help it compete with the other parks and give it something to attract the whole family the height limit should not be imposed on it. What, hypothetically, if they decided down the track they wanted a drop tower is it really going to take up that much of the view from people living on the other side of the Broadwater and is it really going to look that ugly, the northern half of the spit looks wayy worse!
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A glut? We have one every 1000kms pretty much. Best thing that could happen to the coast would be 5 Vegas size casinos. Would clean up the city's image completely. (compare the streets of surfers at 1am to Vegas) Generate works class entertainment opportunities Increase revenue to the city to reduce rate burdens and it's the closest chance to ever seeing a Disney park here that everyone so desperately wants.

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So the news tonight revealed plans to develop Wavebreak island on the gold coast - a kind of dubai-sand style resort area, connected by road to the mainland - with a shipping terminal etc... The developer stated on the news that the key feature of the island (and the only thing mandatory to make the investment viable) was a casino. for those unfamiliar with Wavebreak, it lies west of the spit, in the gap between the spit and south stradbroke island. Personally, I think it's a brilliant idea - but i'd like to see a sentosa style theme park of sorts in there as well... Of course - the news also featured your run-of-the-mill greenie, complaining about the loss of natural environment. For those who've been on wavebreak - this is no great loss to the environment let me tell you...

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I'd like to point out, and is something that annoys me a lot is Wavebreak and The Spit from about the Yacht club on IS NOT NATURAL! It was man made and was built not to be natural and environmental but to serve a purpose and that purpose was to stop the huge coming into Southport and allow them to build a bridge between Surfers and Southport. As far as I'm concerned then development that will help improve the economy and the town should be allowed to proceed and support any idea to develop these areas. Stradbroke Island is natural so sure leave it that way, the rest I don't care. So that land I would love to see further developed and improved and would love to see some of that land go to SW to help them improve their park and give them some much needed space to improve!

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I'm sure the developers will take into account the kind of boat traffic that goes between wavebreak and the mainland - fact is that the channel on the western side of wavebreak is guarded by large sand banks - especially at low tide. When on a missing person search recently, I made many trips from the boat ramp there to Sth Strad and Wavebreak. If a boat can't fit under the bridge, it's going to be big enough to take the eastern side of wavebreak. SES floodboats (built for flatwater, not waves) handled it fine - and they're not large boats. An offshore terminal will cost a lot more. The gold coast needs a cruise terminal badly - this will reinvigorate the area immensely.

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I'm sure the developers will take into account the kind of boat traffic that goes between wavebreak and the mainland - fact is that the channel on the western side of wavebreak is guarded by large sand banks - especially at low tide. When on a missing person search recently, I made many trips from the boat ramp there to Sth Strad and Wavebreak. If a boat can't fit under the bridge, it's going to be big enough to take the eastern side of wavebreak. SES floodboats (built for flatwater, not waves) handled it fine - and they're not large boats. An offshore terminal will cost a lot more. The gold coast needs a cruise terminal badly - this will reinvigorate the area immensely.

But the problem is the Eastern side of wavebreak is were the cruise ships will be parked and that area is not big enough to go around them if the are poking out into the ocean.
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The ships won't be parked on the eastern side of Wavebreak - firstly, there isn't enough room for them to turn sideways, and if they were 'poking out into the ocean' they'd be blocking the entire ocean-going channel. If you look at the artist's impressions - they're placing the ships on the northern side of wavebreak, putting them out of the way of normal channel traffic. The ships will enter the ocean-channel, turn to starboard (north right) and dock nose-west along the northern side of the island.

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