Point Loma
Offshore boat dive · San Diego County · California
Visibility Breakdown
Visibility by position
Solid = diver report · outlined = our reading
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.
✓ = reading reviewed by hand
auto = reading not yet reviewed by hand
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Why it reads 12–16 ft
Medium confidence
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 · charter ports
Point Loma peninsula
Quivira Basin in Mission Bay (Waterhorse Charters runs the Humboldt and Orion) and from Shelter Island on the San Diego Bay side. The site is reached only by boat, with no shore-access option.
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About Point Loma
Point Loma is the offshore kelp forest west of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego. The kelp chain runs roughly 6 miles north to south, parallel to the cliff coast, beginning about 600 yards offshore and covering a band of rocky reef substrate that stretches from Sunset Cliffs Natural Park in the north down toward the Cabrillo lighthouse at the southern tip. Access is by boat only. Charters depart from Quivira Basin in Mission Bay, where Waterhorse Charters bases the Humboldt and the Orion, and from Shelter Island on the San Diego Bay side. Cabrillo State Marine Reserve covers only the southernmost water near the lighthouse, so the central and northern kelp where most charters anchor sits outside any marine protected area.
Biomes here
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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