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Scripps Pier
La Jolla · San Diego County · California
Visibility Breakdown
Visibility by position
Solid = diver report · outlined = our reading
Break Zone: The area where waves can break, from the moment you can actually see underwater until you’ve passed the furthest breaking waves.
Post Break: The area just past the furthest breaking waves.
Open Water: A certain distance from shore, where visibility is at its best, or deeper underwater.
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 Post Break zone.
✓ = reading reviewed by hand
auto = reading not yet reviewed by hand
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About Scripps Pier
Why it reads 0–5 ft
Low 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 and parking
La Jolla, CA 92037
The pier stands at the north end of La Jolla Shores. The free 350-space Kellogg Park lot at the foot of Calle Frescota is the closest public lot and fills before 9 AM on summer weekends.
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About Scripps Pier
Scripps Pier, formally the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, is the research pier of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, at the north end of La Jolla Shores. The concrete pier runs 1,084 feet out from the beach. It was completed in 1988 and replaced the original pier, completed in 1916. Seawater temperature and salinity readings have been taken at the pier since 1916, and its instruments now record wind, water temperature, ocean acidity, currents, and images of the particles in the water. A camera mounted on a piling about 13 feet down streams the view under the pier.
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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