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A brand new atlas with 9 full color, glossy pages is now available. You can get one at our event or at any of these Bay Area retail locations: Bay Area dive shop near you, visit The Map Center or check out RedBubble to browse maps and graphics available as posters, towels and other great products. Lastly, you can see a video about how the Point Lobos map was created in this YouTube Video from the Point Lobos Foundation [Other inquiries can be sent to opendivesites@gmail.com

Welcome!

ODS is a community-maintained, open database of scuba and free diving sites and dive maps for the California Coast. Feel free to edit pages to include more up to date or relevant information, or to share your knowledge! As always, have fun diving! (Incomplete sites in red. If you want to make a new site, please list it here and read the Contributing Guide beforehand, adhering to its guidelines. Thank you!)

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You can use this Map to help you explore all of the Open Dive Sites in California.

Raw mapping data for the seafloor can be found at the California Seafloor Mapping Project.

Help us keep our map current and up to date! Click here to add or edit any map information. Are we missing your favorite spot? Use this blank template page to copy and paste into a new page. Template Page

Monterey Bay

Welcome to the Monterey Bay!

Water Quality reports from Monterey County

Farallon Islands Linda Mar State Beach Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf (Wharf 2) Del Monte Beach Amtrack Anchor Farm Consolation Prize Shale Island Steam Engine San Carlos Beach Hidden Beach Breakwater Cove Barge Wreck Metridium Fields Middle Reef (Breakwater) Sea Lion Rookery The Wall McAbee Beach McAbee Pinnacle Aquarium Wall Hopkins Reef Lovers Point Park Lovers Cove Lovers 1 Lovers 2 Lovers 3 Mating Amtracks Otter Cove Eric's Pinnacle Coral Street Beach/Lucas Point Aumentos Reef Chase Reef Ball Buster Point Pinos Spanish Bay Stillwater Cove Copper Roof House Butterfly House Carmel River Beach Ribera Beach Monastery Beach North Monastery South Monastery Metridium Fields (Monastery)

Point Lobos Whaler’s Cove Worm Patch Sand Channel Middle Reef (Point Lobos) Hole in the Wall Lone Metridium Rock Garden Sea Mount 3 Sisters Granite Point Wall Beto’s Reef Q-Tip Barn Crossroads Wall Street Thumbs Up Twin Peaks/The Road Coal Chute Cavern Montana Bluefish Cove Great Pinnacle Taco Marco’s Pinnacle Shortcut Reef Bluefish Secret Pass

Washington

• Deception Pass
• Keystone Jetty
• Mukilteo
• Scatchet Head
• Possession Point Fingers
• Edmonds Underwater Park
• Alki Seacrest Park (Cove 2)
• Alki Beach Junk Yard
• Three Tree Point North
• Saltwater State Park
• Redondo Beach
• Les Davis Marine Park
• Titlow Beach
• Titan I ICBM Complex
• Boeing Creek Reef
• West Seattle Fishing Reef

Oregon

• Crater Lake
• The Fingers
  • First Finger
  • Second Finger
  • Third Finger
  • Fourth Finger
  • Fifth Finger
• Florence North Jetty
• Clear Lake
• Waldo Lake

Humboldt

• Star Rock
• Steamboat Rock
• Early Hole
• Reading Rock
• Patrick Point
• Trinidad
• South Jetty
• Shelter Cove

Mendocino

• Usal Beach
• 10 Mile Beach
• Mackerricher State Beach
• Glass Beach
• Noyo Beach
• Caspar Beach
• Frolic Cove
• Russian Gulch
• Mendocino Headlands
• Van Damme State Beach
• Albion Beach
• Navarro Beach
• Elk Beach

Sonoma

Sea Lion Rocks Anchor Bay Sea Ranch Horseshoe Cove Fisk Mill Cove Salt Point Gerstle Cove Ocean Cove Stillwater Cove (Sonoma) Timber Cove Fort Ross State Park Wreck of the SS Pomona Sonoma State Park Tomales Bay Lake Tahoe Welcome to Lake Tahoe! Baldwin Beach Bucks Beach Carnellian Beach Cave Rock Hurricane Bay Kent State Park Meeks Bay Rubicon Point Sand Harbor Stateline Wall Zephyr Cove Central Coast Yankee Point Malpaso Creek Big Sur Garrapatta State Park Partington Cove Limekiln State Park Sand Dollar Beach Jade Cove Santa Barbara County Refugio State Beach Santa Barbara Carpinteria Los Angeles County Channel Islands Anacapa Island Santa Cruz Island Santa Rosa Island San Miguel Island San Nicolas Island Santa Barbara Island Santa Catalina Island San Clemente Island Sutil Island Staircase Leo Carillo State Beach Nicholas Canyon Point Dume Malibu Road Big Rock Redondo Beach (LA) Malaga Cove Flat Rock Old Marineland East West Reef Point Orange County Crescent Bay Shaw's Cove Fisherman's Cove Diver's Cove San Diego County Welcome to San Diego County! Carlsbad Scripps Canyon La Jolla Shores La Jolla Cove Mission Bay Channel Yukon El Rey Shooter's Fantasy Ruby E NOSC Naval Warfare Tower Hogan S-37 Ingraham Street Bridge Baja Isla Guadalupe Cabo San Lucas Florida Ocean Reef Park Riviera Beach Blue Heron Bridge Peanut Island The Breakers Worth Avenue Breakers Dry Tortugas Zeeland Eastern Scheldt Strijenham Zoetersbout Oesterdam Contributing If you'd like to contribute and know what you want to do, please see Contributing Guide for information on how to set up pages conceptually, make an account, and jump in! Want to help but not sure where to begin? If you know dive sites, the Monterey Area, or GIS, you can contribute! All the articles in the Needs Love category can use more information. Editing a wiki is simple -- it's mostly plain text; just click the Edit button on the top right of the page. For most advanced formatting, see MediaWiki's Formatting Guide.