Wave Robber

06/29/2013

Local man aims to save New Orleans from coastal erosion with his backyard invention.

04/04/2013

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Webster Pierce of Cut Off discusses his invention, "The Wave Robber" to WDSU-TV6 reporters (and brothers) Fletcher (left) and Travers Michaels during the "Big Pitch Session" of the 5th Annual Entrepreneur Week on Fulton Street in New Orleans on Friday, March 22, 2013. The Wave Robber is a modular s...

03/21/2013

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03/21/2013

03/20/2013

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03/19/2013

“I’m a Cajun. I want this to happen here,” Pierce said. “I don’t want this to happen in Texas…Shame on us if we don’t take care of our own problems here.”

Webster Pierce Jr., a 71-year-old native of Cut Off, La., won the 2013 Greater New Orleans Foundation Water Challenge on Monday with the Wave Robber, an invention that steals energy and sediment from waves aiding in coastal preservation.

03/19/2013

Wave Robber wins $50k in seed money at The Idea Village Water Challenge!

While New Orleans attracted an influx of 20-something entrepreneurs from across the nation following Hurricane Katrina, it was a 71-year-old Cajun from Cutoff …

03/18/2013

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03/17/2013

Webster Pierce Jr. has been watching Louisiana's coast slip away, with a growing sense of alarm, for his entire life. Water has erased the shorelines where the 71-year-old Cut Off native fished and hunted as a child. He watched the marsh fade when he worked for offshore oil operations and the South…