{"id":424368,"date":"2026-08-05T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424368\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:02:07","slug":"san-diego-police-and-lifeguards-cracking-down-on-cliff-jumping-from-sunset-cliffs-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424368\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Police and lifeguards cracking down on cliff-jumping from Sunset Cliffs \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cascade of cliff-jumpers continues to catapult themselves off Sunset Cliffs, a week and a half after two high-profile rescues. One case involved a 17-year-old who jumped and crashed on the cliffs<\/a>. The other involved a man who fell<\/a> trying to climb the cliffs.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement has made it abundantly clear \u2014 cliff jumping is illegal.<\/p>\n

San Diego police and lifeguards said they have increased patrols in light of the recent issues.<\/p>\n

NBC San Diego crews witnessed lifeguards in boats using bullhorns to try and get jumpers off the cliffs on Tuesday. A crew was also stationed in one of their trucks, parked off the cliffs, trying to dissuade illegal activity.<\/p>\n

San Diego police said they handed out over 300 warnings and 18 misdemeanor citations to would-be jumpers. But people who take the plunge say that won\u2019t do the trick.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s adrenaline,\u201d said Michael Nava who was in San Diego from Oak Hills in San Bernardino County to make the leap. “It’s like a rollercoaster. If you like them, you want to do it over and over again. It’s like dopamine!”<\/p>\n

City law states it is illegal to jump or dive into the ocean or into Mission Bay from anything more than 5 feet above the water.<\/p>\n

But jumpers said the teen who injured himself jumping, made the leap from the wrong place.<\/p>\n

“I feel like that was too far of a gap,\u201d said Seth Marcil.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to understand what you’re jumping off of, what your exit place is and kind of what you’re doing,” said jumper Luke Bailey.<\/p>\n

A violation of the misdemeanor ordinance is punishable with a fine of\u00a0up to $500 or jail time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cascade of cliff-jumpers continues to catapult themselves off Sunset Cliffs, a week and a half after two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,9862],"class_list":["post-424368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}