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San Diego- La Jolla SAN DIEGO COAST P38 & F18 AIRCRAFT 125’ - 135’ Adv. Two wrecked fighter
Underwater Park aircraft in deep water straight off rocky beach (coordinates
Mini Map & Kelp Forest Creatures unknown). P38 at 125’, F18 at 135’. P-38 was ditched in 1943.
Scripps Institution Identification Guide F18 date is unknown.
of Oceanography
Visit Franko at TORREY PINES 35’ - 67’ Int. - Adv. Usually a boat dive. Two
La Jolla Shores artificial reefs, Reef #1 at 32053.20’N, 117015.80’W, is 67’
Marine Room www.franksomaps.com deep and has 1000 tons of quarry rock. Reef #2 at 32053.58N,
5 117015.58’W, is 44’deep and has 3000 tons of quarry rock. In-
La Jolla Cove “THE MAP” 52 habited by rockfish, halibut and crabs.
(at Kellog Park)
Boomer Beach BLACK’S BEACH - Vicious surf when big, may be the best
beachbreak in California. Best in W, NW or SW swell, knee-high
Children’s Pool LA JOLLA to triple overhead. Surf may be up in any season, but winter is
Hospital Point best with E wind. Sandy bottom.
Windansea Beach BIG ROCK 10’ - 30’ Beg.- Int. Enter at Hermosa Terrace Park.
Rocky reefs and kelp. Invertebrates include scallops and octopi.
Common Dolphin CLAIREMONT rockfish, halibut and bat rays.
MESA
PACIFIC BEACH BIRD ROCK to PB POINT 5’ - 25’ Int. Dive boat site or shore ac-
805 cess down steep cliff. Sandy and shallow with rock piles and
a big kelp forest. All kinds of kelp forest creatures, including
15 lobsters, halibut, barracuda, halfmoon, lingcod and rockfish.
MISSION BEACH 163 GRANTVILLE
Yukon Mission Bay SERRA
MESA
Sea LINDA VISTA
World
“Wreck Alley” NOSC Mission Valley 8
Tower
Ruby E
OCEAN BEACH HILLCREST San
5 Diego
Sunset Cliffs San Diego
International Zoo
ROOSEVELT- Airport
FLINTRIDGE Lindbergh Field Balboa
Park
Migrating San Diego Bay SAN DIEGO 805
California Gray Whale
Southward late Fall & Winter, The Midway 15
Northward in Spring
NORTH
U.S. Naval
Air Station
ISLAND CORONADO NATIONAL
CITY
Coronado Island
Point Loma Kelp Bed
San Diego Bay
Cabrillo National Monument
Point Loma
5
Chula Vista Nature Center CHULA
4 Silver Strand VISTA
SCALE State Beach
01 2 3
Miles
012 34
Kilometers
State
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