April 20, 2026 / Grade: C (Est.)
3:00 PM Update — Grade C
Visibility: 10–15 ft
⚠️ Camera unavailable at report time. Grade estimated from historical match (20 similar days).
• Wind: 10.8 mph
• Cloud Cover: 42%
• Water Temp: 68.2°F
• Chlorophyll: None mg/m³ (ERROR)
• Swell: 1.3 ft @ 13.0 sec from NW (273°) — favorable
• Tide: Rising → next H at 23:41 (5.785 ft)
• Community Report: No report
12:00 PM Update — Grade F
Visibility: 0–5 ft
The camera feed is currently offline, returning a dark placeholder screen with no underwater imagery visible. No piling tiers — 4 ft, 11 ft, or 14 ft — can be assessed. Without any visual data, it is impossible to identify water color, turbidity, or piling clarity. All three piling sets are absent from view not due to poor visibility but due to the stream being offline. Per grading rules, when no image data is available, no grade above F can be responsibly assigned.
No underwater image is available for analysis, so water color, turbidity, or biological tinting cannot be assessed from this feed. The offline status of the stream may be technical rather than weather-related, but current conditions cannot be confirmed visually.
Unable to assess current dive conditions due to the offline camera feed. Check back when the stream is live, or consult an alternative visibility source such as recent diver reports on Dive Buddies or the Scripps Institution of Oceanography buoy data before entering the water.
• Wind: 9.9 mph
• Cloud Cover: 4%
• Water Temp: 67.8°F
• Chlorophyll: None mg/m³ (ERROR)
• Swell: 1.0 ft @ 13.0 sec from W (267°) — moderate
• Tide: Rising → next H at 23:41 (5.785 ft)
• Community Report: No report
Visibility is currently around 0–5 ft, based on the latest Scripps Pier camera image.
The camera feed is entirely offline and returning no image data — only a dark placeholder screen with an 'offline' message from the HD On Tap streaming service is visible. No piling tiers can be assessed: the 4 ft pilings are not visible, the 11 ft pilings are not visible, and the 14 ft pilings are not visible. With zero visual information available from the underwater camera, no meaningful piling count or water clarity assessment is possible. Because no image data exists, a grade cannot be assigned from visual evidence and the fallback must reflect complete data absence. This is treated as a non-assessment rather than a true visibility reading.
No underwater image is available from the camera feed, so water color, turbidity, and plankton tint cannot be evaluated from this source. Conditions cannot be inferred from the stream alone; on-site observation or an alternative data source would be required to characterize current water clarity.
Camera data is unavailable, so no reliable visibility assessment can be made at this time — check back when the stream is live or consult an alternate source such as a recent diver report. The environmental sensor data (light swell, low wind, falling tide) is generally favorable and suggests conditions could be decent, but this cannot be confirmed without a working camera feed.
Current Conditions
• Wind: 1.0 mph
• Cloud Cover: 1%
• Water Temp: 66.2°F
• Chlorophyll: None mg/m³ (ERROR)
• Swell: 1.3 ft @ 13.0 sec from NW (278°) — favorable
• Tide: Falling → next L at 17:09 (1.994 ft)
• Community Report: No report
Dive Grade: F
🎥 Live Camera: https://coollab.ucsd.edu/pierviz/