Guam Kayak Diving

Tim Rock · Issue 121, Jul/Aug 2021 · pp. 43–45

I have just finished a book about diving in Hawaii with a guy named David Fleetham as my co- author. Dave is a great photographer and one thing he does off his home waters of Maui is go kayak diving. On Guam, I had always had a boat or boat access so never really thought about trying it until COVID and its many restrictions hit our island. We were still allowed to do some outdoor activities like individual water sports (swimming, snorkeling, diving with a spouse or roomie) on Guam during our lockdown. This was great as the small but scenic island of Guam in Western Micronesia is blessed with one of the world’s richest coral reef marine environments. It thrives with more than 1000 fish species and over 400 kinds of hard and soft corals, 1,600 mollusk species and a dozen different marine mammals. The betterment of Guam’s diverse underwater world has been the thrust behind a series of natur…