The Wavescape Ocean Watch (WOW) surf report can be delivered to your cell phone via SMS when you're away from your computer. Our SMS reports are accurate, cheap and easy to use. The info sent to you will be closest to one of four daily updates. There are three types of SMS report:
Once-off SMS -- you send a short code to a number and we send you a open-ocean three day forecast for your region.
Once off SMS -- where you send a different short code and we send you specific near-shore surf for a coastal location.
Monthy subscription -- where you pay 20 bucks a month and you get a daily 3 day forecast for your region (sorry, subscription not available for beaches)
One-OFF BEACH REPORT
This world-first service gives specific surf data for a spot (or in the case of, eg, S Cape Point Breaks a generic reference to protect spots). Useful when you want to know specific conditions rather than 'open ocean' data that changes from beach to beach.
FOR YOUR 3 DAY BEACH REPORT, SMS THE CODE BELOW TO 35010 | |||
| Port Nolloth * | WPN | Kenton-on-Sea | WKS |
| Lamberts Bay * | WLA | East London Point | WEL |
| Elands Bay | WEY | Nahoon Reef | WNR |
| Cape Columbine * | WCC | Kei Mouth * | tba |
| Silwerstroom | tba | Coffee Bay Point | WCB |
| Melkbos | tba | Wild Coast Reefs | tba |
| Blouberg | WBB | Wild Coast Points | WWC |
| Derde Steen | WDS | Port St Johns * | WSJ |
| Dungeons | tba | Port Shepstone * | tba |
| Long Beach | WLB | St Mikes | WSM |
| Slangkop Lighthouse * | WOK | South Coast Points | WSC |
| Cape Point * | WCP | Scottburgh Beach | WSO |
| Muizenberg Corner | WMU | Umkomaas * | WUM |
| Cape Agulhas * | WAG | Durban Bluff * | WBL |
| Stilbaai Point | WSB | Vetch's Reef | WVE |
| S Cape Point Breaks | WWC | South Beach | WDB |
| Mossel Bay * | WMB | New Pier | WNP |
| Victoria Bay | WVB | Mgeni River Mouth | WMR |
| Cape St Francis * | WCF | Umhlanga Rocks * | tba |
| Seal Point | WSP | Ballito Bay | WBA |
| Jeffreys Bay | WJB | Alkanstrand | tba |
| Cape Recife, PE * | WCR | Richards Bay * | tba |
| * Probable near-shore surf along exposed open-ocean reefs or beaches in this area. | Sodwana Bay * | tba | |
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ONCE-OFF REGIONAL REPORT
The regional report gives general sea state a few miles off the coast, and is useful for an overview of the open ocean conditions for an entire region. This is useful if you wish to get a general idea so that you can determine WHERE you want to go based on your own interpretation of the general open-ocean conditions.
FOR 1x 3 DAY REGIONAL REPORT, SMS THE CODE BELOW TO 34010 | |||
| West Coast (Lamberts Bay) | WL | E Cape East (East London) | WE |
| Cape Peninsula (Cape Point) | WS | South Coast (Scottburgh) | WH |
| Southern Cape (Mossel Bay) | WM | Durban (Bluff) | WD |
| E Cape West (St Francis) | WF | North Coast (Richards Bay) | WN |
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MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Get a three-day REGIONAL surf report delivered to your phone every day at 8am by subscribing to our monthly service. It costs only R20 per month. Simply send an SMS with the words SUBSCRIBE XX (please select the appropriate two letter code from the table below) to 31020 and the service will be activated. You can cancel at any time by sending the word STOP XX (using your two letter code) to 31020. You will be billed for that month only.
Short codes
WL West Coast (north of Tableview to Lamberts Bay)
WS Cape Peninsula (western seaboard to Cape Point)
WM Southern Cape (Stilbaai, Mossel Bay)
WF E Cape West (St Francis, J-Bay, PE)
WE E Cape East (Kenton, East London, Kei Mouth)
WH South Coast (Port Edward to Toti)
WD Durban (Toti to south of Ballito)
WN North Coast (Ballito to Richards Bay)
Please read the Monthly Subscription page here for more information. Please note the monthly subscription is not available for BEACHES only for the above eight regions.
UNDERSTANDING THE REPORTS
If you want to know where our reports come from, click here
Want to get your head around reading peak period (interval between waves in seconds and a key variable in reading swell POWER and therefore potential surf height), click here
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