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Marine Room is a shore accessible salt water dive site, located in La Jolla, CA. This dive site has an average rating of 3.56 out of 5 from 9 scuba divers.

A lesser known dive spot just to the South of La Jolla Shores is the Marine Room, named after the adjacent restaurant. This site provides better access to the Northern reef area.
11 miles North of San Diego, take the Ardath Road exit to the West. In 1.4 miles bear left on Torrey Pines Road. In 0.3 mile, turn right on St. Louise Ter. Turn right on Spindrift Drive, and look for the Marine Room on your left.
Excellent spot if you want a deep dive close to shore. The canyon finger gets close to this location. Did a wonderful, deep 195’ dive and we could have gone much deeper. Great location to practice deep dives due to an easy kick out with dual tanks.
Great beginner site as the depth is 40 ft max. The reef is teeming with large and small fish alike, and leopard shark sightings are almost guaranteed near shore. I’ve seen seals, dolphins, turtles, bass, electric rays, angel sharks, morays, HUGE sheep crab, octopus, nudibranchs, you name it.

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Off the beaten path. Limited street parking. No facilities. Overall topology is similar to Valley Sea Toes (scubamap.net/map/index.php?viewSite=49), but located in the transition zone between the sand ecosystem of Valley Sea Toes to the north, and the rocky kelp reef of La Jolla Cove to the south. Public access to the beach is provided by a narrow cement sidewalk with steps, located on the south edge of the excellent Marine Room Restaurant. ljbtc.com/default.aspx?p=DynamicModule

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watergypsy - 7/03/2016 11:42 AM
Rating Added: 5
Great for night diving
topherjones - 4/13/2013 10:54 AM
Rating Added: 3
I went scuba diving here on 4/6/2013. Average viz: 31-35ft/9-11m. Water temp: 50-55°F/10-13°C.
COLD! Should have worn at least an 8mm suit. Long surface swim. Heavy surf that day.