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Muck Diving: It’s a Small, Small World on Guam

Muck diving on Guam was little known by divers until a few years ago when local residents started posting images online from muck dives. Simon Pridmore and Steve Wolborsky tell the tale.

Words:
Simon Pridmore
Steve Wolborsky
Images:
Steve Wolborsky
MJ Wolborsky
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Travel & Trips

Twenty-five years ago, I opened a dive center in Guam called Professional Sports Divers. This was the first dedicated technical diving center in the Western Pacific, but we also taught people to dive and took fun divers out to see Guam’s reefs and wrecks.

Grasses can protect reefs

One of the major threats facing Guam’s reefs is soil erosion resulting in sedimentation and suffocation of the complex organisms that make up a reef system.

University of Guam, soil science professor Mohammad Golabi’s research shows that using vetiver grass to shield reefs in Guam’s Pago Bay helps protect them from the effects of construction-induced run-off.
Ecology & Science

But according to a report from the University of Guam, soil science professor Mohammad Golabi’s research shows that using vetiver grass to shield reefs in Guam’s Pago Bay helps protect them from the effects of construction-induced run-off.

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