Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks. These amazing photographs were captured by American ocean photojournalist Tim Rock, on a trip north of Papua New Guinea to Vertigo Reef in Yap, Micronesia. ‘I had the pleasure and privilege to team up with diver Ai Futaki for two weeks of photography during an event called Manta Fest in Yap, Micronesia,’ says Tim, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ‘She is a world champion free diver who wanted to try free diving with sharks and asked if I would document her swimming in Yap's waters.
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible.
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair.
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun.
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight.
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts.
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth.
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers.
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs.
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook.
