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Site Condition |
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| Name: | Kirk Huff | Entry: | 
4.00
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| Email: | Click Here | Bottom: | 
3.00
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| City: | Reef: |
3.00
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| State: | Animal: |
3.00
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| Country: | Plant: | 
2.00
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| Diving: | 3 years | Facilities: | 
1.00
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| Dives: | 95 | Solitude: |
4.00
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| Roads: |
2.00
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Evaluation |
*Average: |
2.86 |
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| Since early 2010, the Port Authority of Guam security has begun stopping divers and demanding that they show a permit issued by the port general manager. This is a bit of silliness as it apparently was put in place for all the dive classes at Outhouse Beach but has been extended to every diver, who must now submit their certification and certificate of insurance for approval. Bizarrely, people say they are never challenged at Outhouse Beach because there are so many classes that security assumes you are part of one, while challenge the occasional group of shore divers at Family Beach. Hopefully saner minds will eventually triumph. If you have said permit, have evaded the authoritarian grasp of bureaucracy, or if security has gone back to not caring, this is the perfect beginner shore dive - easy entry, relaxed, stuff to look at in a reasonable depth. I typically take a heading on the buoy or ship out the right of the beach and, after dropping down, go right over the top of Dogleg Reef (1-3'). ('Dogleg Reef' is another name for this dive.) You drop down the other side of the coral to where the sand begins at 60' or so and then turn left and go around the tip of Dogleg Reef at a very leisurely pace and you should have plenty of air to follow the wall all the back to your entry point. You could easily just follow the side until you reach halfway air and turn around. Never more than 60-65' deep if you stay on the coral, at a slow pace with a surprising amount of fish. For the adventurous, Harley Reef, which has a pre-war or WWII-era Harley-Davidson motorcycle on top is supposedly very close to Dogleg Reef, though nobody has ever given me decent directions. | |||
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Enjoyment Level |
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| Snorkel: |
4.00
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| Beginner: | 
5.00
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| Intermediate: |
3.00
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| Advanced: |
3.00
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| Night diving: |
3.00
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Seasonal Information |
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| Season: | Fall | ||
| Year: | 2009 | ||
| Visibility: |
3.00 |
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| Current: |
5.00
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| Surf: |
5.00 |
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