Lau Lau Beach, Saipan

I dive LauLau regularly. The road isn't great, but my Taurus has never had a problem with it. Chances of seeing turtles 80+%. Occasional Eagle Rays, cuttlefish, octopus. Security guard posted daily. No facilities. I've been coming to this beach for 25 years now and diving it for the last year. Don't worry, no one will shoot you. A safe spot and a wonderful easy dive.

Lau Lau is a very easy dive. There are 3 different entry points from the parking lot. At all 3 you walk our over a coral shelf to a cut that will drop to 15 feet or so. They all have a rope to use/follow through channels out to the main dive area. The site offers a gradual slope down. The center entry brings you to a old pipe in the sand that can be followed. There is a coral finger along side it with lots of swim-throughs. The far left rope takes you over the top of the coral where turtles and large puffers are common. This a popular site and, though you will see other divers, they are easy to avoid underwater. The government provides a security guard to monitor the parking lot 7 days a week.

Excellent site, although the roads to get there are prohibitively bad, being made of crushed pink coral and mud. During typhoon season (Oct ~ Jan) the roads can be horrible, and on days when a typhoon is imminent this otherwise placid place can be almost undivable...though it's one of the last spots on the island to become undivable during typhoons. The entry and exit are incredibly easy. You can walk in or do a giant stride entry. Exit is through an extremely murky channel, so local dive shops have put a long rope there to guide you through the near-zero viz near the exit. Excellent clown-fish in an area called "clown town", and a baglike anemone along the lengthy pipe near the exit. Excellent corals to the left; silty flats to the right. 20% chance of seeing a turtle. Very frequent assorted large life, including napoleon wrasses, harmless reef shark, turtle, eagle ray, stingray, football-size squid, and so on... best chances of seeing these are at night or dawn before the site's mobbed. No facilities, nor even a phone or loo, onsite. Occasionally a government security guard is posted there to protect dive vans from break-ins. DO NOT walk along the beach past the large cement blocks, because the locals who live there may shoot at you. DO NOT park on the beach during turtles' egg-laying season-- you may be crushing someone's family. Wear dive boots because you'll be walking over coral during entry/exit.