Marina Pile South 
This site is also located just outside Marina Del Rey harbor, and it’s in 45 feet of water, a wee bit shallower than Marina Pile North. This site is made up of smaller rocks with smaller, shallower holes, and it’s covered with a thicker growth of gorgonians. It’s directly south of the Marina Pile North, which is less than a quarter of a mile away, and will show about a 10-foot rise on your fathometer. There’s a good population of sand bass here, and we enjoyed spear fishing on this site. We’ve taken a few nice halibut on the sandy edges around the rocks, and some bugs too.
A comment about taking landmarks that might help you out. It’s more effective when you get line-of-sight readings that are separated by some distance apart. When you move over the surface they vary more than objects that are lined up close together. When trying to decipher my published notes look for the marks to be quite a ways apart. For example, on this pile the south end of the breakwater light is the near mark, and the far mark is a clump of trees on a hillside a fourth of a mile away (if they are still there). Don’t try to find that mark in the fog. Anyway, I usually try for landmarks that are separated as noted in this case. I hope this helps you in figuring out my scribbles.
More to follow…