In the 80s I hada friend that worked at the pier. On a giant day, he said we could jump off, if we dared. We declined after seeing how far up we were. We tried paddling out under it. We got a third of the way out when a set came through, under the pier, slapping the bottom as it came at us. we were unable to paddle out and luckily it just spun us around a couple times and spat us out the side.