SEACAMP San Diego
SEACAMP San Diego campus, Fiesta Island (Mission Bay), 1750 Fiesta Island Road, San Diego, CA 92019
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SEACAMP San Diego offers hands-on marine activities such as snorkeling, kayaking, boogie boarding, beach activities, and a boat trip. Participants may snorkel in a marine reserve, snorkel at the Coronado Islands, kayak and snorkel in Mission Bay, take a trip to sea on a marine research vessel, have an introductory SCUBA experience, study at Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Stephen Birch Aquarium, and explore the Pacific Ocean’s living tidepools.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: SEACAMP San Diego office is currently available Monday through Thursday 9:00am – 4:00pm PT.
Since its founding in 1987, SEACAMP has provided marine science education to thousands of students and teachers from across the United States and several other countries. SEACAMP San Diego’s mission is to provide exciting, innovative, hands-on, and interactive marine education opportunities to students across the country and around the world. SEACAMP instructors are college-degreed, have a marine science background, and are certified in Lifeguarding, CPR, and First-Aid. SEACAMP offers a range of programs during the school year and summer that combine hands-on labs and workshops with interactive field activities and cover marine ecology, physical oceanography, marine biology, chemical oceanography, and geology, including both residential and day camp programs for schools and individuals, as well as family and international programs. All school-year sessions are custom designed for each school group or science club.
SEACAMP’s founder was Mike Yeakle, who brought in Phil Zerofski in 1994, and in November 1997 Mike and Phil worked together to turn over the directorship of the camp to Phil; Phil and his wife, Assistant Director Amy Bergen Zerofski, have been running the organization since then. SEACAMP San Diego offers an outreach program in which instructors attend local schools. SEACAMP San Diego was voted best Summer Camp by San Diego Reader in 2024, and holds a California Department of Fish and Wildlife Scientific Collecting Permit, which is required for educational and research institutes to collect or possess wildlife.
Parent, teacher, and chaperone comments include that kids “loved SEACAMP” and “are still talking about” their time there, that instructors were “excellent” and students “were so engaged,” and that “the kids always have a blast” and staff are “great with the kids and the adults alike.” Parents also report that their children “couldn’t stop talking about” their experience and describe SEACAMP as “a great program – especially for kids growing up in land-locked states.”
Last updated March 15, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: SEACAMP San Diego office is currently available Monday through Thursday 9:00am – 4:00pm PT.
Since its founding in 1987, SEACAMP has provided marine science education to thousands of students and teachers from across the United States and several other countries. SEACAMP San Diego’s mission is to provide exciting, innovative, hands-on, and interactive marine education opportunities to students across the country and around the world. SEACAMP instructors are college-degreed, have a marine science background, and are certified in Lifeguarding, CPR, and First-Aid. SEACAMP offers a range of programs during the school year and summer that combine hands-on labs and workshops with interactive field activities and cover marine ecology, physical oceanography, marine biology, chemical oceanography, and geology, including both residential and day camp programs for schools and individuals, as well as family and international programs. All school-year sessions are custom designed for each school group or science club.
SEACAMP’s founder was Mike Yeakle, who brought in Phil Zerofski in 1994, and in November 1997 Mike and Phil worked together to turn over the directorship of the camp to Phil; Phil and his wife, Assistant Director Amy Bergen Zerofski, have been running the organization since then. SEACAMP San Diego offers an outreach program in which instructors attend local schools. SEACAMP San Diego was voted best Summer Camp by San Diego Reader in 2024, and holds a California Department of Fish and Wildlife Scientific Collecting Permit, which is required for educational and research institutes to collect or possess wildlife.
Parent, teacher, and chaperone comments include that kids “loved SEACAMP” and “are still talking about” their time there, that instructors were “excellent” and students “were so engaged,” and that “the kids always have a blast” and staff are “great with the kids and the adults alike.” Parents also report that their children “couldn’t stop talking about” their experience and describe SEACAMP as “a great program – especially for kids growing up in land-locked states.”
Last updated March 15, 2026.
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