Casino Point Dive Park
Avalon · Catalina Island · California
Visibility Breakdown
Visibility by position
Each zone is how deep underwater you were when you saw that visibility, not how deep the water was. Anything you saw from the surface, snorkeling or looking down from a boat, goes in the Surface Zone.
Surface Zone: Visibility seen by a diver between the surface and 30 ft down. Every reading taken from the surface, snorkeling or looking down from a boat, goes here. Haze can sit in this top layer.
Mid Zone: Visibility seen by a diver between 30 and 60 ft down.
Deep Zone: Visibility seen by a diver 60 ft down or deeper. Less light reaches this deep, so the water can look darker even when it is clear.
Through the day
Today's visibility readings at this spot, shown at the hour each one was taken.
Every bar is a reading for the Surface zone.
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Coastal Bulletin
About Casino Point Dive Park
Why it reads 36 ft
Today's forecast runs
The clarity holds through the day, with a light afternoon onshore the only disturbance to the entry shallows.
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7-Day Forecast
Today is the live headline above. Tomorrow onward is the algorithm's forecast from predicted swell, wind, and rain, updated each morning and at 6 PM Pacific.
Map and parking
Avalon, CA 90704
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About Casino Point Dive Park
Casino Point Dive Park is the dive site that built recreational scuba in California. Designed in 1962 and opened in 1965, it was the first nonprofit underwater park in the country and one of the sites Jacques Cousteau put on the map. The park sits against the seawall at the base of the Catalina Casino. A stair entry leads down from a flat staging area where divers gear up, and buoy lines mark the boundary of the dive park out across the cove.
Species found here
Researched habitat and range candidates. A listed species may be seasonal or depth-limited; this is not a confirmed sighting at this location.
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