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Fathom Surf · 3D terrain

Solana to Swami's

Solana Beach to Swami's

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Contour lines (interval adapts to zoom) Shoreline Satellite photo on top Photo opacity80%

Shoreline ( NAVD88, about the low-tide line) Where the lidar has no return offshore (deep water, kelp or reef foam), depths come from NOAA's 33 ft model, down to deep, to out

Roads and paths

Roads Paths Stairs Railway

Highway Street Footpath, trail Bike path Stairs Railway

From OpenStreetMap, downloaded 29 Sep 2026 (1 Oct south of La Jolla). Hover a line for its name. Service roads show from zoom 15.5 and sidewalks from 17.5 to keep the view readable.

About the data

Coverage: 67% of cells measured 0–500 yd out (86% north of La Jolla)
Range: inland to (lidar), (model)
Grid: 3 ft (13 ft when zoomed out)
Land & beach: USGS 3DEP 3 ft, Nov 2024 (2014 on Point Loma)
Accuracy: ± land, ± water
Seafloor: USACE 2014, NOAA InPort 49416
Deep water: NOAA NCEI San Diego DEM, 33 ft, 2012
Photo: Esri World Imagery, live

Land and beach come from the USGS 2024 survey, the newest. It has no seafloor and flattens the sea to one level off the waterline, so the surf zone and seafloor come from the 2014 USACE survey (on Point Loma's federal land, which 2024 left out, the land is from the USGS 2014 survey, and on the Navy sites neither measured, from NOAA's model), and the two agree within about on stable ground. The lines on top are today's OpenStreetMap roads and paths. The hatched ground is where the survey has no measurement. Sand moves with the seasons, so today's beach will differ from late 2024, and the bars from 2014. Offshore, where the lidar has no return, depths come from NOAA's 2012 San Diego tsunami model: 33 ft cells built from ship sonar surveys, much coarser than the lidar but running out past the edge of the continental shelf (about ) and down the slope into the La Jolla and Scripps canyons to , and to off Point Loma. Where the two overlap on the seafloor they agree on average, with a typical scatter of about .