Tim Rock

Photojournalist TIM ROCK travels the world for underwater, aerial, cultural, marine and travel-related images. He is an experienced photojournalist specializing in the ocean realm and has had his work appear in The Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Publications, Terre Sauvage, GEO and is a Getty Images Lonely Planet Collection photographer. His work is featured in coffee table books, international magazines, galleries, aquariums, hospitals, banks, businesses and other worldwide venues. He was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Communications. He also was awarded by Nature's Best Magazine Asia for his video work on manta ray congregations in Guam in the western Pacific. He personally publishes a full series of diving guides called "The Best Best Dives", and extensive servies of diving and snorkeling guides and coffee table image books. Here is a sampling on this site of his recent work in cluding Papua New Guinea, Komodo and Truk Lagoon (Chuuk, Micronesia).

The newest books are out now including new for 2027 the 50 Best Dives in Papua New Guinea, The Diving & Snorkeling Guide to Komodo and Central Indonesia by Tim and Simon Pridmore, Tonga: Swimming with Whales, Diving & Snorkeling Guide to Hawaii with David Fleetham, 50 Best Dives series of Hawaii and 50 Best in Japan. They are the recent updates of the Diving and Snorkeling Guide series which include Palau-Yap, Truk-Pohnpei-Kosrae, Guam-Marianas, Bali, Northeast Indonesia-Raja Ampat, Hawaii and the special edition third update of Hidden Treasures-Guam's Marine Preserves. Enjoy!!