After more than a year of planning and nearly a century of history, a new plaque in La Jolla’s Scripps Park honors the Bottom Scratchers diving club.
The Bottom Scratchers, considered one of the earliest free-diving associations in the United States, formed in San Diego in the 1930s with a focus on catching local seafood to feed members’ families. The participants didn’t use snorkels or fins but instead held their breath while diving deep into the ocean, often off La Jolla. The new plaque, unveiled the evening of May 10, is embedded in a boulder next to a bench near a grove of trees overlooking Point La Jolla.
” Bottom Scratchers members have been credited with inventing or improving diving and spearfishing technology, initiating creation of the La Jolla ecological reserve, pioneering underwater photography and forming the first San Diego Port District dive team. They also helped scientists conduct research dives. “Bottom Scratchers said we needed to restrict the take on , leading to limits on the take of black sea bass, abalone and lobster,” Hoene said. “They did a lot for conservation.
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