Story and Photos by TIM ROCKWe've had days with dives and seminars and nights under the stars with great big screen presentations. Weather has turned from good to perfect and high morning tides are starting. One group had a manta encounter yesterday and everyone has been enjoying the Vertigo sharks. The afternoon dives at Slow and Easy have been...

Days 3 & 4 in Yap and its producing more shark action. Check out Ai out in the blue with toothy friends. Here's the afternoon dive in Yap at Manta Fest. More good free diving sharks: https://timrock.photoshelter.com/gallery/Yap-Vertigo-Reef-Free-Diving-Sharks/G0000wnWJtwg6U4E/

Fernreise-Spezis kennen das: Man steigt ins Flugzeug, steigt wieder aus, wieder ins nächste hinein, und ehe man sich versieht hat man die Datumsgrenze überschritten und steigt an irgendeinem wunderschönen Ort aus, wo man erst einmal feststellt, dass man irgendwo auf dem Weg jegliches Zeitgefühl über Bord geschmissen hat. Nicht, das Zeit in Yap eine allzu...

Fernreise-Spezis kennen das: Man steigt ins Flugzeug, steigt wieder aus, wieder ins nächste hinein, und ehe man sich versieht hat man die Datumsgrenze überschritten und steigt an irgendeinem wunderschönen Ort aus, wo man erst einmal feststellt, dass man irgendwo auf dem Weg jegliches Zeitgefühl über Bord geschmissen hat. Nicht, das Zeit in Yap eine allzu...

Story and Photos by Tim RockThe Manta Fest days are officially underway with Andy and Ray and myself slated to be giving seminars starting this week. The first day of diving was highlighted by a great gathering of reef sharks at Vertigo. Bill Acker brought down a small bait basket that kept the sharks interested...

Story and Photos by TIM ROCKWhat would Manta Fest be without mantas? Well, they showed up today to the glee of early visitors. And not without a bit of fanfare. We returned to Miil under sunny skies and a bit of a breeze. Low tide was just at slack and the channel visibility on the...

Story and Photo by TIM ROCK Manta Fest in Yap is slated to begin this weekend. A few of us are here early including my free diver friend Ai Futaki. Here is Ai at 50 feet off Vertigo Wall with a gray reef shark (or six). We had sunny skies and clear, incoming tide waters...

There was some rain last week, ...but there is nothing wrong about that, unless your plan is to play tennis or golf. Fortunately we are diving here in Yap Island and the umbrella of the ocean's surface  protects us from the cool showers. While waiting for the Manta Rays to arrive at the cleaning station...

While my wife Patricia and I were driving to town this morning on our way to pick up our youngest granddaughter who is scheduled to spend the weekend with us, I suddenly realized something special.  The day is glorious, sun is shining, breeze is blowing, everything is green from the summer rains and then it...

Okay, we all know that Greece put the Euro into trouble, but who would have thought that our stone money makes it to the Azores in the mid-Atlantic. If you take a closer look you see that this disc is only a poor copy of our handicraft originals... At least it is located in front...

Today saw the first day’s training in the kitchen on board the Mnuw, our 100 year old floating restaurant moored by the Manta Ray Bay Resort.  The reason for the training you might ask?  Well, we are in the process of totally overhauling our menu and putting into place something that is exciting, fresh, tantalizing...

Here I am, at the Manta Ray Bay Resort on the island of Yap in the Pacific region known as Micronesia.  After a long journey from French Polynesia, my video equipment and I have arrived safely.  I had just enough time to set up my diving and video equipment, when Yap Divers announced  a Shark...