Advanced dive (or higher cert.), due to very rough conditions on entry/exit. Dive itself is pleasant, as you can see a variety of sea life to include sharks, rays, lion fish, and stone fish to name a few. Visibility is average ranging from 20-60 ft most days. Recommend that you wear rash guard/gloves (especially for exiting the site) due to heavy surge/currents. It is also recommended not to dive this site until you have an instructor/guide to take you there first.

Drive down Marine Drive heading south until you enter Asan. There will be a tee-shirt store on the right (just before memorial park). Dive site is right behind the store.

Asan Cut

July is the best month of the year to dive this site but you need to time it about one hour before a high or a very low tide. Just be aware that very strong currents can occur here and pull you out to sea.

#3 - Asan Cut

Gear up at your car, then walk 30' to knee-deep water, and follow a cable/pipe channel straight out. Returning, expect to clutch this cable/pipe to resist the rip tide in this cut. Once outside, head LEFT toward the hotels. Rightward is boring, and devastated by crown-of-thorns starfish who've killed the reef. Leftward is a paradise of candlestick corals, gradually sloping from 15' to 100' deep before becoming a sandy plain.  Lots of spider-shells, large animals, & reef fish.  Very pleasant dive.  Far better than anything in Hawaii, but not as good as Saipan, and unworthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as Palau.  Re-entry through a riptide, and the lack of a bathroom or shower, keep this from being perfect... but it's nearly perfect. Avoid snorkeling here if there are waves. Use thick-soled felt booties on this and all Micronesian shore dives, because spiny urchins and sharp rocks abound in the corals which you walk across in the shallows. Visibility is typically 60 feet/18 meters.

This is one of the easiest shore dives on Guam. Located at the far-right side of the tourist strip, Tumon Bay. Go as far right as possible on the paved road, past the Nikko Hotel, then follow a fairly good dirt road down to a small beach alongside the Nikko Hotel.  There are no facilities (no phone, bathroom, or anything else) at this beach, but in case of emergency, the hotel's nearby & willing to help out.

Gun Beach

This place seems to attract many divers, but I found it to be on the poor side.

#2 - Gun Beach

At the end of the road is a small white sand beach called "Family Beach".  There are no phones or showers or indeed any other facilities, but there are plenty of nearby people should you have an emergency.  Suit up at your car, and walk 30' over fine tan sand into the waist-high clear water.  You can snorkel the 2o yards to a small, 30' deep valley that runs parallel to the beach.  Turn North-West (the way you drove), and enjoy this little valley.  It's brightly lit, with few divers, lots of animals and corals, no currents, and only a tiny problem with easily-stirred-up silt on the bottom.  It's the perfect dive or snorkel, if you want something tame but exquisitely beautiful for beginners.  No currents, no big animals. Always safe.  DO NOT be tempted to dive at the nearby "Outhouse Beach".  Outhouse is popular with dive shops, but I cannot imagine why.  It's got horrible viz, and little life of any kind.

Drive South-East from Tumon Bay.  Pass Hagatna (the capitol city) and look for the road leading Northwest along the thin peninsular north edge of Apra harbor.  Drive slowly, because there are many large container trucks and police on this road.  The road is wide and well paved.  On the way out, you'll pass "Outhouse Beach" on your left, marked by the presence of a stony beach and many divers' vehicles.  Don't pause.  Keep going to the end of this road.

Family Beach

Another way to dive this site is to kick straight out until you come to a wide sandy bottom. Keep kicking and you'll come to another reef. Drop down and head to the left.  One downside to this site is you have to tow a flag because of the jet ski action there. I know an instructor who was fined around $600 for not having one.

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