Blue hole
down to 91 m
Blue Hole
A vertical shaft from 18 m with a window onto the wall at about 40 m, and visibility that can reach 30 m or more.
- Experienced
- Whale sharks
Advanced≤30 m
Gun Beach
Dive site in Guam
Shore dive through a cable trench to the outer reef, where green turtles are common and eagle rays glide past the drop-off.
- Max depth
- 40 m
- Level
- Advanced
- Best months
- Apr–Aug
- Entry
- From shore
- Current
- Strong
The story
Gun Beach takes its name from a rusted World War II-era coastal gun that still rests near the cliff. Divers reach the outer reef through a trench carved decades ago for oceanic cables.
Source: world.dan.org
The dive
A reef dive from the shore. Known for manta rays, dolphins and turtles.
Who it's for
Advanced≤30 mSource: guamdiveguide.com
Recommended minimum: Advanced (PADI Advanced Open Water, N2).
- CurrentCurrent can be strong; you need good air management and buoyancy.
- Strong current: dive with a local guide and carry a surface marker buoy.
- The site goes deeper than 30 m: Advanced divers stay above 30 m.
Conditions
- Dive type
- Reef
- Environment
- Open water
- Water
- Sea water
What you might see
- Manta rays
- Dolphins
- Turtles
- Eagle rays
- Octopus
Season in Guam
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Best months: Apr–Aug.
Source: diveadventures.com.auPrices in Guam
- One dive
- €78–81
- Try dive
- €72
- Open Water course
- €303–448
Prices found at the area's dive centres, not specific to this site. Details and sources
Where is Guam?
The point shows the Guam area, not the exact dive site.
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down to 30 m
Gab Gab II
- Advanced
- Nurse sharks
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Piti Bomb Holes (Fish Eye)
- Open Water
- Blacktip reef sharks
Wreck
down to 40 m
SMS Cormoran
German WWI transport scuttled in 1917 in Apra Harbor, now lying beside a WWII Japanese freighter.
- Experienced
Wreck
down to 37 m
Tokai Maru
A 1943 Japanese freighter lying against a WWI German ship: the only known site where wrecks from both world wars touch.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Reef
down to 21 m
Western Shoals
Apra Harbor reef whose top is covered with vast staghorn coral colonies home to thousands of small reef fish.
- Open Water
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.