San Diego Scuba Diving - Dive Reports

Dive reports from local divers all over San Diego County. Reports from San Diego's many popular local dive sites accessed by dive boats, as well as shore dives . Scuba Diving San Diego promotes community involvement to increase scuba knowledge and environmental conservation through informing local San Diego divers.

San Diego has some great dive sites, such as the HCMS Yukon in Wreck Alley, La Jolla & Scripps Canyons, and the Marine Ecological Reserve which has some of the best Kelp Forests in the world. Getting to the dive sites can be as easy as a shore dive or from a boat dive.  Several San Diego dive boats operate all year long. Your options for scuba diving San Diego are abundant! Checkout the local dive reports and weather conditions, then go diving and let us know about it. We'll post your dive report to share with others! Explore the many beautiful dive sites that San Diego scuba diving has to offer.

Latest San Diego Dive Reports

La Jolla Shores, Wed Jan 13, 2010
We did a dive at the Shores this morning, with  high tide going out. It was surprisingly a nice dive today, even though the predictions for huge waves have been all over the surf reports. About 15 ft vis on the main wall, 20-25 ft in the shallows. 2-3 ft surf, moderate longshore current, 61*F [...]

Scripps Canyon, Tue July 22, 2008
We had ourselves a very nice dive at Scripps canyon this morning. Surf was down and the water was nice and blue for the first 30f or so, but we also had respectable visibility in the canyon today. The usual abundance of life was out on display, including several swell sharks, the large moray eel ...

Scripps Canyon PM, Mon July 7, 2008
Met up at the usual place for the Scripps Canyon dive this evening. Our plan had been to have Dan, Darren, Jen and I dive as a group. We met at the buoy after ducking under some 4 foot waves before yanking on our fins and kicking like crazy to get beyond the surf zone. [...]

La Jolla Shores, Mon July 7, 2008
We saw the schools of bait fish during the swim out and again near the end of the dive shortly after we started over the fields of Sand Dollars. Where oh where is a good alchemist when we need one? The bait fish literally formed a swirl and darkened the bottom during the last part [...]

La Jolla Shores PM, Sun July 6, 2008
Nice conditions at the Shores today. Our dive group decided that the new parking situation at Vallecitos made it easier to drop off/pick up dive gear. On the kick out, we were treated to a fleeting dolphin show. A friendly sea lion popped his head up to say hello. With J’s line-ups, we dropped ri...

Yukon & Ruby E, Sat July 5, 2008
Conditions were very good at the wrecks today. Took a client out on their first Wreck Alley dives today. Very little swell. Good viz. Hit the Yukon first at about 8:15. Didnt have to compete for buoys, as we were the first one out there this morning. No thermocline today, temp was in the mid [...]

La Jolla Shores, Sat July 5, 2008
We had an interesting dive this morning at La Jolla Shores. I wasn’t expecting much since this was my second dive without my strobe (should be back Monday, the battery had a loose wire). I decided to take along my 18-70mm lens to see what I could do with it with ambient light (not by [...]

La Jolla Shores, Fri July 4, 2008
So we met on V street at 5am, okay a little earlier than that, and the street was already crowded with folks unloading their cars and moving on. The 15 min parking did not deter us from parking on Vallecitos due to the fact it is only enforced 11am to 5pm they just haven’t posted [...]

South Wall LJ Shores, Fri July 4, 2008
Just returned from a dive along the South Wall. Very nice conditions! Mirror-like surface, 1ft waves, mild current. Viz in the 40-50ft range below 30fsw, enough to enjoy the landscape formed by all those wall-ettes and ravines. Dropped down to 90fsw during initial descent, but remained between 60...

La Jolla Shores PM, Thurs July 3, 2008
Buddied up with Mike B. and Jimbo S. this evening for a leisurely dive. As Vallecitos proved to be more of a parking challenged area now, we parked in the parking lot. By the way, exactly at 10:00 pm the police strongly encourage you to leave the parking lot, and they start handing out citations....