Black's Beach in Torrey Pines split in two after dramatic bluff collapse
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- Usually, the stretch of beach from Torrey Pines State Beach to Black's Beach is one continuous strip of sand, but late last week, a bluff just south of the Torrey Pines Glider Port failed; the slide was so giant it split the beaches in two.
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The Cliff fell, but it didn't fail. It's what cliffs do, and it's part of how beaches are made.
why are you racist against the ocean? it never asked for more beech to erode!
@@halburd1 The ocean floor asked if you forgot his million years in slavery? Do his tears mean nothing to you surface bigots?
@@halburd1 Kanye is that you
Thank you another voice of reason.
My mom is much more upset with my failures than this cliffs.
The amount of people walking near the slide knowing it’s not done is astounding. 😅
obviously they don't know that rocks can bounce, and roll, and roll....
Shut up nerd, not everyone is a pansy.
Always white people
“Black’s Beach, everybody knows, you don’t need no buttons and bows. Black’s Beach, everybody knows there’s a bunch of crazy people there without any clothes.” 🎶🎵🎶
There used to be a yearly album of San Diego homegrown songs about the city. I only remember this one and another about Chula Vista.
bought the album back in 73 or 4. went to blacks Beach because it was clothing optional. wonder if still 🤔 is.
@@harleyhawk7959 it is.
care to share a little of the chula vista one? pretty please
@@astroclam It had ominous lyrics and a chorus that chanted low: “Chula Vista, Chu-luh-vis-tahhhhh…”
@@georginatoland i just knew I would get a kick out of your answer and your recollection fits the bill🙂 Thankyou for that
Sign "Avoid unstable cliffs" Video of people walking by unstable cliffs.
Darwin was right. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Yep, ya cant fix stupid
@@quietobserver4636 They all survived... and if their videos are super popular on YT they can get some cash. That's money you and I aren't making here with our comments.
I like how the surfer is the one giving safety advice and not the USGS. 😀
Our Agencies are failing by the day.
Surfers have a healthy respect for Mother Nature. The average beach goer doesn’t!
That's not the purpose of this short report . Maybe there was not a spokesperson from the USGAS available . Should they wait to do story on the collapse until they get one ?. I just love it when you internet experts chime in.
For real yo!
There should be at least yellow tape warning people to NOT walk towards the cliffs, warning them to keep away and out of that area, whats wrong with Authorities?
It’s a shame you have to tell people to stay away for their safety because they lack the common sense to figure it out on their own.
It’s a shame you can’t just let people make their own decisions. Schoolmarm.
I guess sense isn't so common any more.
@@irishfergal ya its dollars now
Natural selection, your outrage can’t stop it.
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood Thanks Heywood...Now I can't stop imagining a school bell ringing...
Let's be clear, the heavy rains and big surf did not CAUSE the bluffs to fail. They simply contributed to accelerating the process. Any geotechnical engineer will tell you that those bluffs always were going to fail. It was just a matter of time.
The houses up in LA built right on the edges of seaside cliffs have always made me nervous!
My husband used to get so freaked out when I would walked too close to the cliffs and he would tell me that you never know if they’re going to give way and I never really fully understood until now! God rest his soul, he was so right on!
Miera, I love your post. I hope you’re doing well now without husband. Your words remind me of a favorite song of my wife and I: _Whispering Waves_ by Donna Summer. God bless you! 🙏🏼
@@Glen.Danielsen such a boss song it's up there with peace sells but who's buying by Megadeath.
@@RossDrum Ross, brother of different drum: give prayer a try. I promise it’s worth it. Best to you. Have peace.
He warned you, but never stopped you.
@@odomisan just like god who gave us free will.
I just surfed there last week and I saw some of the cliff starting to crack and slide. I always stay as far away as possible when walking from the glider port
You're a survivor and not stupid.
Is that slide area significantly different than the areas around the access trails (i.e., is it far more prone to slides)?
@@mikel5582
Not really
Is it naked beach or the other side
@@janet5135
Yup, it’s a nude beach.
I used to run on that beach in the 1970s. I remember some times at high tide that the surf was hitting the bottom of the bluff. In addition you could sometimes see water seeping out of the sides of the cliff in areas where there was housing (really expensive housing!) relatively close to the cliff. We knew then that the stability was questionable. It's a little sad as I remember being in that area, especially alone on Sunday mornings, as a reallly beautiful sanctuary. I very seldom saw more than two or three people once you got half a mile from the Torry Pines parking lot.
I met my wife at Black's in 1989. How many marriages work out of Black's? Shawn mentioned the high surf as the cause; I believe that it was all the rain.
@@jobobperry Shawn didn't say that high surf was the "cause"... LOL... and I blame Gravity... the entire cost line has been falling into the ocean for several millions of years... at some point most of California will be under water... so who's surprise at this?... The oceans are not rising as fast as predicted by the panic but coastal erosion is more of a normal physics problem of plate tectonics, subduction, earthquakes, and normal wave action... you should blame people for building homes on top of those cliffs for being STUPID...
I used to hike back when there was trail was called fat man’s misery. Sadly, it’s long gone 😢❤
@@t.c.2776 You're right about building on sandy cliffs, but you must have flunked Geology. Most of CA will not be under water.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ it's been happening since the beginning of time it's not the end of world just nature doing her thing
There are so many people, in the summer, who pitch their blankets right at the bottom of the cliffs, it's unbelievable. I've actually warned people in the past but gave up because so many just ignore the signs which tell sunbathers to stay away. Every couple of years, people get buried alive. What a horrible way to go. Read the warning signs and obey them!
See yeah - buried alive. 🦖🥚
People have the right to be buried alive
It happened at Grand View a couple years ago.
Mind your own business twat
@Joe Surfshaper 👆🏻 look another hillbilly with an Opinion 👆🏻.....🦆💨
When I lived in CA I always said if I waited long enough I'd be living on beachfront property.
I like how the reporter tells everyone to stay away from the slide area as he standing next to the slide area.
As I recall from my navy days , blacks beach was a clothing optional beach in the mid 70's
It's been happening for millions of years , Wiley coyote and Acme say look out for the falling rocks .
Meep meep🤪
If he catches you you’re through.
Watch out for falling anvils
@@playdiscgolf1546 thats the real danger
Was thinking same...if it werent for all the geological changes over the millions of years we wouldnt have what we call "the landscape" lol everyone relaaaax and just pay attention to your surroundings
We spent a fair amount of time down there in the 80s, so that’s pretty stunning to see. But of course so many landscapes we love are the product of erosion over millennia. We can pretend they are static, but it only appears that way because our own lives are incredibly short by geologic standards.
Well said.
Another reminder we are smol
Yes, all sand goes downhill until there is no more hill.
@@pistonburner6448 Yep! And sometimes we get events like this -- punctuated equilibrium, geologic style.
Nicely said Jim.
I remember going by those cliffs so many times prior to moving farther north. I think that is the same area that dents slightly in a bit that had previous movement.
Bluff : I'm gonna collapse
Geologist: you're bluffing
This is southern California, where hills slide in the winter with great regularity. Those bluffs are made of rock chunks, sand and clay. It absorbs water til it can no longer bear the weight and then it slides. Happens all over down there. And when it rains, it RAINS! I remember freeway underpasses in San Diego with four or five feet of water in them. And people would try to drive thru. The old saying is true - don't build your house on sand. And try to be smarter than water.
Yeah, that's pretty much all cliffs arounds San Diego - it's a powdery dirt/sand/clay.
A lot of the footage I have seen of the collapse happening appears to have happened during lower tide. At that point there was still plenty of distance from the base of that collapse out to the water's edge. In footage shown here, the tide is higher and that clear beach stretch is covered with surf. Visitors must stay aware of Tide levels and times as well as keeping an eye on the cliffs. Incoming tide can cut them off from a safe retreat if more collapse occurs.
I watched a vid on the collapse it happened over many moments you would think the earth was shaking in order for the prolonged falls of rock to continue as they did 🤔
NO FOOTAGE HERE….ALL VIDEO FILES AND UPSET THAT YOUR NOT IN THE 21 century
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ spread the gospel, Jesus isn't the son of god, there is no god, free yourself from the grip of man
You do know that that's still close enough to die right... Ricks smashing apart can explode and send out lethal chunks. One guy found that out as they were a "safe" distance from a building demolition.
People can be stupid, if they get buried its just Darwinism in action.
WOW... that was so cool! I use to go to Torrey Pines all the time back in the mid-70s. I was stationed at Miramar (Navy back then). When my father was stationed in San Fran at the Presidio back in the 60s, we always heard California will fall into the ocean... well, Torrey Pines, you were a bit late, but I see it happening! Blacks Beach back then was a nude beach also for those that do not remember. I bet I walked on those cliffs back in those days... the ones that fell. Just saw another video of this... Mother Earth puts on a great show!!!
God is raining hell down upon all those naked sinners!!! Soon the earth will shake and... wait a minute, weren’t we born naked.. my bad.
Still a nude beach
It still is a nude beach. Much of it.
I remember when my husband and I went to visit friends in San Diego in 1976. Our friends felt that they had to take us to Blacks Beach. (with our suits on of coarse...lol ))...I was 3 months pregnant with my son, now 45, and our friends had a infant 2 year old( only nude one amongst us)...We climbed down the side ot the cliff untill we reached the bottom. From the top of the cliff, it looked like small Ants down at the bottom running around. when we got to the bottom, we realized what the small creatures were was a group of nude Vollyball players, playing volleyball nude on the beach. Well , that was quite an eye opener at the age of 23....So innocent we were them, I had all I could do to not look, but to just get on by and find a place to lay in the sun and try to ignore the rest on the beach. that was the one and only time we went with them to any beach..So crazy now to see what is happening on Blacks Beach. Nothing like that would have ever crossed my mind back them. So Scarey....
"Its a really dangerous area, so we sent our reporter there to see if he gets crushed, ah, I mean 'Report on it'"
That surfer could have been in the SNL Californians skit. I was waiting for him to tell me how to get to the beach from downtown San Diego.
Black's Beach used to be a clothing optional beach back in the day!
Still is on the state beach side
It still is.
Blacks Beach in San Diego and Wreck Beach in Vancouver are iconic West Coast nude beaches and will remain so forever.
Take a walk along a few of California's beautiful beaches anywhere between border with Oregon at the North with Oregon, and the border at the South with Mexico. On most beaches with cliffs you will see they consist of loose soil ("dirt") sand, gravel, pebbles, and boulders ---> Unconsolidated soil, not particularly resistant to gravity, or erosion by wind & runoff from precipitation...
*_West Coast Beaches have been eroding and collapsing since the oceans rose at the end of the last ICE AGE._*
The surfer was very well spoken. Nice sounding guy. Good person to interview.
Thats how all surfers talk
So glad you all got an expert on the case
This new clip didn't show the best version recorded AT ALL! I watch this video on TH-cam last night and the dude was right in front of it recording it! It was absolutely amazing to watch! I've never seen anything like it so y'all need to jump into TH-cam and search it! If I remember it the video was like 7 to 10 minutes long?
Today's continents were formed with water over millions of years and they will continue to be formed and changed irregardless of how Humans want the land to look.
Irregardless 😂
You probably says “whilst” huh
And those two at the end were never seen again...
that surfer dude is my hero
You set your standards pretty low, didn't you? What did he do to deserve to be a hero?
Why?
Wow..Been visiting Black's since 80s. A beautiful long beach stretch to walk. The whole UNIVERSE in transition and that includes nature.
In one year the beach will be back as the waves pound the rocks into submission.
@@larrysorenson4789 Maybe! Been watching the waves pound various cliffs in CA for decades. Especially N County. Certain rocks survive just fine.
@@johnedwardjones999 oh, Jesus. You just had to reply. Well, did you watch Palos Verdes fall into Portuguese Bend in 1968? By God, you are right, some rocks take millions of years to erode. Thank you so very much for making sure that we didn’t miss this in our frenzy to describe the geological process of beach erosion and replacement. You want a rock beach, go to Oceanside.
@@larrysorenson4789 O...Is that what you were doing? Why so frenzied? No time limit on explaining things clearing....Was very young in 68...
I always speak out about misinformation. Having walked those cliffs that collapsed, that are very sandy and will probably dissolve overtime.
Not a fan of the Oceanside beaches. Hope this helps slow your friendzied pace.
@@johnedwardjones999 sadly, I am pretty old now and see how much I imagine I must do before I croak. My wife, kids and grandkids are my focus. Especially the grandkids. I want our educational system to prepare them for life. Right now I don’t think they do that. So Carol and I spend hours with them, reading, telling stories, drawing and helping them to make things. Since we did not get married until I was almost 40, i am anxious about our ability to help them get ready for life’s challenges. This week my 3 year old grand son and I are making a little blue and Yellow bird house together; just like the one that my Grandfather (and I) made.
And music! We always have music playing. And I have a little plastic Piccolo that they blow into. Every once in a while I will oink out a little tune and they get all excited. I don’t know if I will make another ten years but plan to start them on little guitars as soon as their fingers work better. And then there is the dream of a small used piano.
Working with them a lot their language skills are pretty good for their ages. Living in the southwest, I have started slipping in Spanish. In another three years I’ll sneak in French just for fun.
And that is just the tip of the Iceberg. Why did God invent sleep? It gets in the way of doing wonderful things. Have a safe and free 2023.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling ! 🐥
Thank God they could find a surfer to give us his opinion of the cliff collapsing.
Mother Nature.....undefeated.
WOW! I used to fly off the top of those cliffs years ago!
Stay off drugs kids
@@latentsea I think he took a glider.
Great seeing this from a safe distance!
"Hey, I saw you on the news last night! The reporter was pointing you and and saying you were being stupid!" lol
I haven't thought of Blacks beach (it was always a nude beach) in years but you never forget La Jolla shores.
There was a time back in the '70s and probably before and after that Black's Beach was a popular place for nude sunbathing. I spent many hours under those cliffs getting an all over tan.
There was no easy access to the beach, we had to climb down the cliff. Maybe we were there at the same time.
@@buckyomama3438 ... Waiting for low tide would be a waste of time. We were young, strong and adventurous. The beach was the reward.
Gay too.
Still is.
I remember dragging a small ice chest down & up the cliffs to go to Blacks Beach. Even then we knew to stay away from the cliffs. The cliffs look so much bigger now.
As those women walk straight into the cliffs. Lol
Can you still hike down the cliff on the famous trail?
He said, “have common sense”. Lol, that’s in short supply these days 😂
“How to keep the area safe”
Stay away
I live in the Adirondack Mountains, in a steep valley. The mountains on both sides of me are in a process of being worn down by erosion. Mountains seem immovable, but through the long lens of time they are temporary, as is the entire earth.
I love Old Forge. My parents used to live in Booneville.
all mountains are being eroded by erosion dumbass
@@upyours1234 Yes, I'm reminding the people who don't know or forgot
I have climbed down and up those cliffs hundreds of times going to Black’s Beach back in the 70s/80s.
That surfer guy seemed pretty chill.
Oww, that’s the Naked beach 😳🫣
In ski areas, when heavy snows come, ammunition rounds are used to stabilize the slopes with intentional landslides. All of this is done for public safety and something similar can be done here as well.
Lol. You see how close the house is atop that bluff? 🏰💥. Not to mention poisoning the ocean with the runoff of high explosives. No worry, nature will take care of it, Just give it time. And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.
Call the authorities and give them your expert advice
@@mattbash5372 lol, there is always hope for something similar. The house too close is too close. And projectiles can be range based and fall within allowable military firing range runoffs. Demolition of buildings? Similar codes?
@@mizzury54 lol, the authorities are probably the ones to issue permits after all safety requirements are met.
@@gary.richardson Ok Gary 🤪👍
When you're stepping over recently fallen rocks you should know it's not safe.
Why is it such a surprise? Geologists were called in..haha lmao
Welcome to the edge of the continent
memories of climbing down to surf fish in the early 70"s
I remember in the early '70s when the mayor got caught down there when it was a male and female nude beach.
@@flynnstone3580 mostly male.
Wow! This is cool 😎 land changes before our eyes😳
Might this point out coastal erosion is real? What an discovery.
Erosion happens…
It’s a constant process!
It looks like a face, facing the sky 😮
Share the shrooms
1:11 View from high drone shows buildings just a little way inland. Guess their value just collapsed too.
Years ago we used to frequent blacks beach, and also the top of the park and trails through the cliffs. There used to be a trail called fat man’s misery. You got to a certain point and if you weren’t skinny you couldn’t get through. It’s long gone now though….. 😢
We used to hike the fat man’s misery trail too! It was so much fun. There was a great view at the end of the trail. Those were the days, my friend.
I've been flying over these cliffs for many years from the nearby glider park. The big expensive homes near the edge of the cliffs use a lot of irrigation for palm trees and lush green gardens. When flying close to the cliffs I can see where this water is seeping out between layers of rock, obviously weakening the cliffs. One house has a large swimming pool near a vertical cliff. It's likely there will be more large dramatic slides in this area.
Surly you're BLUFFING. No I'm not, and don't call me Shirley.
😂😂
Roger Roger
So if our coasts can deteriorate so fast after a storm, how is there any crust left after 4 billion years?
Weathering, a naturally occurring phenomenon for the last four billion years.
All Californians in Nevada!! Please go back there before it falls in the ocean!!! Thank you.
I'm only here 8 yrs. What did all san diego beaches look like in 70s? On long Island we just pump more sand into fire Island which itself was man made i believe. Some years we lose 300 feet of beach then the rebuild it back by pumping sand in .
This beach doesnt lose sand. I'm a native here to San Diego for 50 years and surfed doen there maybe times. I've never seen this big of a hill slide.
Some tourist beaches put sand on beach before summer. Most are natural in San Diego. Blacks is not a tourist beach as it’s hard to get to.
None of this is new. Everything is in constant flux. Including the temperature. One more thing to push climate change by the climate cult.
The "news" is a t.v show.
Back in the 70's there were about 50 thousand more naked people.
@@turtlrunr just about 1500 feet further out to see it looks like to me as we can see the big barges doing the work. Maybe it can't be done here as the east coast has softer sand bottom
I was at Black's Beach in 1977 and we all watched a guy fall from the top! He would fall for a distance then slide then fall some more he was like a rag doll that's the miracle of it was he was so high he lived. Later on he was playing volleyball with a finger hanging off and all beat up looking
How far away from the glider port is the cliff collapse?
From the videos I’ve seen it looks just south.
I’m no geologist but I also think the heavy rains and atmospheric rivers contributed to the cliff failure.
Well of course they did....liquefaction of the Sand causing a reduction in the coefficient of friction. Don't you watch Big Bang Theory, Sheldon often talks about it. See Penny's falls in bathtub scene. th-cam.com/video/Ywk5mWO3EMM/w-d-xo.html
I'll bet your never used the term, "atmospheric rivers" until the TV repeated it over and over and over again.
@@rickgeller6043 They were called it that 20-30 years ago but only in the world of weather nerds, and because it was newly discovered. The news picked it up more recently.
It's a new word for he climate cult to bat around like they have a clue.
I'm sure all the freon we dumped into the atmosphere in the transition from r22 to r410a contributed to it....oh wait the ozone apparently healed itself and now that we have the cleanest burning fossil fuel technology carbon dioxide is the problem......
I sure hope there’s no one under all that dirt ! 😎
I hope there is.
@@rickgeller6043 y…?
Wow 😮I used to go to blacks surfing and tory pines when I was stationed at
Mirimar nas 69 😢
Yeah man....like wow....like crazy
No way bruh.....
Man I remember smoking pot on top of those cliffs over looking the beach in the parking lot
Who doesn't?
It’s 3/21/2024, are there any updates on the condition of the bluffs today? Have there been any more slides since last year?
I used to surf there in the mid sixties as a kid. Doesn’t even resemble the area anymore. Be safe out there
"It's the biggest collapse they've ever seen." Uh, short-lived humans get to see nature at work and it is a BIG event that is happening on a regular basis, worldwide. How many people have ever even seen a major bluff or cliff collapse? Why not report instead of dramatize? Give me a break.
Is it still a nude beach.
Yes
Was this North of the Glider Port Beach trail to Blacks?
South. From what I can figure, about 2000 feet south of the glider port. Haven't been there since the early 90's
wonder if what somebody i know calls Ho Chi Minh trail is buried and if anyone got hurt.
wonder how it would affect the sand banks, new surf break?
How can this happen?! Newsom needs to outlaw it.
Black's is a mostly gay nude beach. DeSantis's head would explode.
LOL, good one!!! 🤣
he would tax it
Was Blacks beach still a Nude beach?
yes but now there is actaull women down there, not just the creepy old guys playing volleyball....
@Your Name when your nut sack hits your knees,you can't help but play volleyball!
Has there been any seismic
activity, too?
I believe the surfer guy is THE DUDE!
Summer of 1975, spent 6 weeks living on blacks beach, after 3 months camping cross country from Pennsylvania. Climbed those cliffs every day, with my dog, to shop for food, shower at university, come back down cliffs, cook on open fire. Had $ in my pocket from sale of my 1965 vw bus, later rented a house in Leucadia and spent 28 years living in various mountain areas of California. Whoa is me, to have returned to PA in 2003, and, well, here now to watch this epic moving of a hillside under which I slept.
give yourself a cookie
Rare earth minerals? Can’t wait to take a look.
Why do they act so surprised?
Beach, cliff and mountain erosion has been going on ever since there have been beaches, cliffs and mountains.
The nudity of the people was so powerful, that it collapsed
Stay away due to falling cliffs!... " Idiots proceed to walk in that area"... isn't that a nude beach where Men stroll around looking for Women?
That is exactly what I was told a while back.
You can see the naked couple 🏃♂️ from the cliff falling they ran south
There's no shade, no public facilities, and no fresh water . . and no lifeguards. The NSA has satellites that can read tattoos from space.
Most of the men I see there are looking for other men.
I've been there. People mostly mind their own business.
Potentially stupid question but wouldn't it be smart for geologists to intentionally collapse all of those cliffs so as to try to reduce the chance of them collapsing on unsuspecting bystanders later on?
Just how much money do you want the govt to spend collapsing all those cliffs so it becomes gentle slopes? I bet it would cost a lot more than we spend on the military budget.
Once the cliffs become slopes, the ocean surf will just eat at the slopes until it is all cliffs again.
I do not think you understand the magnitude of what you are asking.
Nobody will ever know
Oh come on! They don't think the seismic activity that's been going crazy the last few weeks has anything to do with it? Wow!
“Back in my day, boy I’ll tell ya.” 😂
Isn’t that a nude beach?
Yes
Probably THE ONLY one they've EVER seen......hillarious
Whos responsible for this? California needs to sue someone for this damage to personal property.
Like, this was, like, huge in magnitude, like, it was, like, incredible.
That surfer dude is, like, highly irritating to listen to.
The county needs to close that part of the beach off, so stupid people can't walk on the rocks at the foot of the slide to get around to the other side, for their own safety. They will be the first to file a lawsuit if they get injured.
No. Do not close it off, some people know how to act around cliffs. For those idiots who do not know, let them be how they will be. what will happen, will happen. that is ok.
Very comprehensive report from the geological expert they had on, it's a good thing he happened to be surfing there. Quick, someone call Gretta or John Kerry.
1:10 I wonder how safe those homes are.
Check for newly exposed fossils.