Category Lineage
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Chamorro fishing, drawn by Alphonse Pellion, c. 1817
Lineage — No. 01
A Tradition More Than 4,000 Years Deep

No cows, no pigs, no goats. The ancient Chamorro people lived almost entirely from the ocean — their diet built on reef fish, deep-sea pelagics, and a relationship with the water that outside observers described as unlike anything they had ever witnessed.

"No better seamen or divers have ever been known to exist." — Fray Juan Pobre, 1602
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Category Safety & Regulations
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Dive flag buoy marking a spearfisher in the water
Guam Waters — Regulations
Your Mission-Critical Safety Reference

No-take marine preserves, the buddy system, a pre-dive checklist, and a species harvest status guide — everything you need to review before every trip.

"One Down, One Up." — the standard for every responsible diver
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Category Diving Safety
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Diver descending into open Pacific water off a Guam reef drop-off
Guam Waters — Diving Safety
Spearfishing: The Greatest Sport in the World — With a Catch

Task-fixation, shallow water blackout, the physiology of a single breath, and the currents that make Guam's reef drop-offs the most dangerous part of any dive — with the data, charts, and protocols to back it up.

"Even a small mistake can turn critical."
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Why Teak — Booth Spearguns
Wood & Materials
A Wood As Old As Time
Across thousands of years of shipbuilding, one wood outlasted everything else. Here's why we still build with it today.
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Tagåfi' (red sea bass)
Guam Waters · Public Health
Ciguatera Toxin: The Not Good, All Bad and Real Ugly — What Our Fishermen Should Know
It has no taste, no smell, and survives cooking. What every spearfisher on this island needs to know before the catch hits the table.
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Guam reef waters — scuba spearfishing ban
Guam Waters
Scuba Fishing: The Update Since Guam Finally Blew the Whistle
Guam banned scuba spearfishing in March 2020 — one of the last Pacific jurisdictions to do so. Here's the legislative timeline and what the data shows on reef recovery since.
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Booth Spearguns dive gear laid out for a pre-dive check
Gear Check
A tap-to-check packing list for dive day — mask to cooler, dive gear to safety kit. Your progress saves automatically.
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