Pago Pago Marine Charters (PAL Inc.) operates out of Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa, the best protected deep draft harbor in the South Pacific. Our boats can be configured for work or pleasure depending on the charter. Our sister companies, Tools, Inc. and Industrial Gases provide additional expertise and materials when it comes to work charters involving underwater welding, construction, and salvage. 

Charters for work projects are our specialty. Our sister company, Industrial Gases, offers  fabrication and welding services to help get a job done. When it comes to finding things  "If its on island and we dont have it we will know where to get it"

 Specializing in work project charters doesn't detract from the fact that we got into this business because we love being out on the ocean. If you're just looking for a good time fishing, sight seeing, and maybe even doing a little bit of underwater exploring with our SCUBA diving charters, it would only be our pleasure.

 Pago Pago harbor is one of the best protected, deep draft harbors in the South Pacific. On a day when the waters around the island are rough and choppy, inside the harbor the water will be as calm as a lake. 

Pago Pago is also home of two tuna canneries, Star Kist Samoa and Chicken of the Sea. Tuna runs in and around the territorial waters provide the source of the tuna packed in the canneries, and the canneries are the single largest private sector industry and employer in American Samoa. Aside from the larger commercial fishing vessels, the harbor is also home to the domestic fleet of smaller fishing boats.

The territory of American Samoa was officially annexed by the United States by treaty in 1900, and had served as a coaling station for the U.S. Navy for several decades prior to annexation, as well as afterward. The role of American Samoa during World War II was as a forward staging area for the Pacific War against Imperial Japanese forces, although the territory never actually saw combat, with but one exception. On January 11, 1942, shells fired by a Japanese submarine landed in Pago Pago Harbor, and one shell landed on the house of Frank Shimasaki. According to historical sources, Japanese scouting planes overflew the territory on several occasions early on after Pearl Harbor.