Pete Nawrocky

Pete started diving in 1971 exploring the calm, balmy water off of Long Island NY. His interest in photography started in 1976. The equipment available to him was a Minolta SRT 201 in an Ikelite housing with a simarly housed Vivitar 283 flash. “I started photpgraphy to help explain to my parents why I was [...]

Ron Watkins

Ron Watkins first experienced the thrill of diving at age 15 at Lake Mead, Nevada with his father, who learned how to dive in the Navy during the Korean War aboard the USS Oriskany. Although his father is no longer able to dive, he is able to experience the underwater world through Ron’s photography. Ron [...]

Andrew Dawson

After scuba diving for the first time in 1994, Andrew Dawson realized he had found his true passion, and has been pursuing underwater photography ever since.  He has traveled extensively to various diving hot-spots around the world, including Fiji, British Columbia, the Caribbean and Bahamas, Cocos Island, the Galapagos, Mexico, and California. Andrew’s personal journey [...]

Chris Kovaz

Chris Kovaz is the owner and founder of CK Photo Tours, and at the age of 22, is already an experienced professional photographer. His love of underwater photography gradually developed after his father, Blaise, helped get him certified as a diver at the age of 12.  After receiving a 2-mega-pixel camera and an Ikelite housing [...]

Steve Straatsma

Steve first started shooting underwater in 1973 with an old Brownie camera in a plastic housing in the springs in North Florida. He graduated to a Nikonos III and Sea & Sea strobes in 1978, and was encouraged to continue progressing by winning two categories in the Florida Skin Divers Association photo contest that same [...]