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Advantages:
- Easy to repair
- Protect the shore
- Function after minor damage
- Don't disturb the shoreline
Disadvantages:
- Expensive
- Ugly
- Ruin the Surfing tourism industry
- Can be displaced easily by waves
- Don't absorb all energy due to gaps between the breakwater
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe disadvantages of the breakwaterrs is that when the breakwaters deflect the incoming waves before they reach the shore, these waves that are deflected to other places (exposed areas of the coast) causing erosion. To summarize this, breakwaters are unable to provide complete protection for the whole coast and therefore unprotected areas will prone to erosion.
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∙ 12y agoadvantages are that they stop the waves having as much power
disadvantages are that they are ugly and take time to build
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