Casino Point depths

[socaldiver]

In the "Accidents" thread Ken mentioned his survey of the park and Dr Bill made mention of depths as well.

I haven't been diving in the park for nearly 3 years so my recounts are not as accurate as most of you socal diving gurus.

But I am curious, as you get in the water from the steps and you head towards Avalon you go past the monument and that part of the water is in the mid 30 range generally, I believe. Just past there though there is a severe drop off, I always referred to it as the wall, where the bottom becomes more sandy than rocky. I thought the water in this particular area was over 100 feet. Is that outside of the park, or am I mistaken about the depth there?

On the other end of the park as you approach the Valliant I believe the water is right at 90 feet, this was based on a dive I did about 5 years ago in that area.

 

[Teamcasa]

Generally at the limits of the park, under the buoys, is 85 feet on the North end by the swim platform, to 100' to the South by the SueJac.

 

[DiveNav]

The max depth inside the park is less than 30m / 100ft.

For more details you can check depths directly using our dive simulator.

See bathymetry below.

Alberto

 

[fnfalman]

At the furthest buoy out toward the marina, I've hit sand bottom at 110-ft (assuming that the depth gauge is correct) and I do think that it is correct because both my depth gauge and my buddy's gauge showed 100ft+.

 

[drbill]

You were outside the park at that depth fnfalman.

The depth at the base of "the wall" (I call it that too) is only about 55 ft

 

[socaldiver]

Thanks Dr Bill and everyone else. We would spend a lot of times during our dives just in that area because of all the critters we would see. We also would cruise out away from the wall, the kelp wasn't as thick and on a few occasions observed a couple GSB and some seals playing.

At the time I didn't give it any thought that we mightbe outside the park, but looking back now that would make sense.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

 

[fnfalman]

At the SueJac wreck was when I hit 110-ft.

 

[drbill]

Impossible unless there was about a +15 ft tide (well outside the range on our shores)... unless your depth gauges were off. The base of that wreck is nowhere near 110 ft. Away from the wreck it does start to drop off quickly in the direction of the harbor mouth.

 

[fnfalman]

Maybe my depth gauge was off but my buddy's depth gauge showed 100ft+ as well. We followed the buoy's anchor all the way down to the bottom, looked around, didn't see anything really worthwhile, and shrugged and went in toward the rocky ledge where all the cool stuff were at.