Dive in Guam

The Japanese "Val" Bomber is a plane located on a sloping wall that starts in 30'/10m and it rests in 85'/28m with one wing intact and other wing laying about 30'/10m to the side. The divesite is very close to the American Tanker. This dive is very easy and can be done by taking the first 10 minutes…

The Blue Hole is one of Guam's most popular dives. The "Blue Hole" is within 30 yards of shore. However, the shore it's near is a towering, jagged cliff on a military base.Therefore, it's typically accessed by divers via boat. The Blue Hole is, like Saies Tunnel in Palau, a wide tunnel from shallow…

Dive site is marked with a white bouy directly across from "Gab Gab" beach on ComNavMar Naval Base. Fish feeding areas are set up to get large amounts of fish to gather as scenery for a small tourist submarine ( "Atlantis" ) which makes trips through the area. Large amount of fish, noticed a few…

A very easy reef dive close to shore and containing an abundance of tropical fish species for this part of the Pacific Ocean.

The SMS Cormoran was a German merchant raider built by German in 1909. In april 1917, just before the end of the war with Germany the captain of the Cormoran scuttled the ship instead of turning her over to the Americans. The 88 meters long SMS Cormoran lays in 38 meters of water on her starboard…

The Tokai Maru was a 135m long Japanese passenger-cargo freighter built in 1930. She was re-commissioned as a freighter by the Japanese Imperial Navy in October, 1941, and was used to transport war materials and personnel throughout the pacific. She was torpeadoed by the US Flying Fish submarine in…

The "American Tanker" is actually a large 300+ ft concrete barge. Recentinformation found on the internet indicates that in late 1944 the barges wereloaded in Honolulu with war supplies, and then towed to Guam from Honolulu by the USSBannock and Arikara. Later they were put into position on the…

Located in the North of Piti Bomb Holes, this beach dive is started and ended by walking in ankle-to-knee-deep water perpendicular to the beach, along a thigh-width pipe. At the wave-break zone, this pipe is at the bottom of a rip-current notch in the reef. Fortunately, the pipe has rough joints at…

Family Beach, located near Outhouse Beach, is idyllic beach diving. it is within Apra Harbor, thereby guaranteeing that during most weather it is divable. Unlike Outhouse Beach, it is fairly brightly lit, with moderately well developed corals and moderately abundant sea life. Parking is alongside a…

Like Outhouse Beach and Family Beach, Finger Reef is inside Apra Harbor, and therefore divable even when rough weather threatens to make most of Guam's divesites undivable. There, the similarity ends. Finger Reef is an extremely well-developed reef wall along the opposite side of Apra Harbor, much…

Located in Naval Station on the western coast of Guam, Gab Gab Beach is in a restricted naval base so only military personnel will have access to Gab Gab Beach. The beach is great for snorkelers, and beginning and experienced divers. You can do a beach entry or come in off a boat. You’ll find…

Outhouse Beach is a favorite spot for SCUBAcertification dives. On a typical day, five to ten SCUBA companies' vans will be gathered at this site, busy conducting PADI Open Water certification dives. This should not, however, be taken as a sign that the site is exceptionally pretty. In fact, it is…

To the west of the Tokai Maru lies a third huge shipwreck, the Japanese freighter Kitsugawa Maru - another casualty of the days prior to the US invasion of Guam in 1944. Torpedoed by the submarine USS Seahorse, she was towed into the harbor for repairs and, while at anchor, was attacked by bombs and…

Hap's Reef is a well-developed coral mound several hundred yards offshore, in roughly 30'~40' of water, with flat terrain and shallow sandy valleys surrounding it. It is generally accessed by boat, and is a favorite 'second dive of the day" after diving the nearby Blue Hole.

When you enter the water set your compass to the buoy and there will be a ledge with a 6 foot drop off. Just hop in here and descend and head toward the buoy. Along the way the clarity will not be great (due to the water treatment plant). Just keep swimming and eventually it will clear up and you…