Steve Rosenberg – Creator of Rosenberg eBooks
Steve Rosenberg began a career as a professional underwater photographer and photojournalist in 1980. He wrote 22 Dive Travel Guides for international publishers including Lonely Planet, Cruising Guides and Aqua Quest Publications. He produced hundreds of articles for various U.S. and International publications.
Steve created and operated a retail Scuba Diving trade show, in Oakland, California. Under his direction, Seaviews quickly became one of the largest and most successful scuba shows in the United States.
Thousands of his images have appeared in books and magazines worldwide, and he received more than 250 awards for his photography in International Competitions. Steve received a gold medal in the prestigious Hans Hass Photo Competition in Austria. He also took the Gold medal in the First World UW Photography Competition held in the Turks and Caicos Islands. In 1996, Steve received the coveted Scuba Schools International SSI Platinum Pro 5000 certification, awarded to divers with 5000 logged dives. He is an active member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA).
Rosenberg eBooks
In 2013, Steve assembled a new team of professionals to produce interactive electronic books, eBooks, focusing on international scuba travel. The name of his new company is Rosenberg eBooks. These comprehensive Dive Travel Guides are also powerful marketing tools for scuba destinations, dive resorts and live-aboard dive yachts. The team includes Coral Consulting, owned by Greg Bassett. To date, four comprehensive dive and travel guides have been published and more are in the works. The most recent guide, Dive and Travel Cozumel, was released in 2019. Dive and Travel Cozumel provides a detailed description of 36 dive sites in Cozumel, and includes comprehensive information on land tours, wildlife and travel basics. Steve is currently working on a variety of new projects in the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific.
Greg Bassett – IT Specialist/Author/Videographer
Greg Bassett fell in love with diving in the early 1980’s during a trip to Hawaii. After moving to the San Francisco bay area shortly thereafter, he and his wife joined the Underwater Photographic Society of Northern California. During that time, he met Steve and many other excellent photographers. His life-long career is as an IT Specialist. A career move took him to Switzerland in 1997. In 2010, Greg joined Steve on an Indonesia dive trip to help with a marketing project. When Steve started producing eBooks in 2013, he asked Greg if he might be interested in joining forces. Greg’s experience with diving, video, and all things IT was (and is) an excellent match with Steve’s photography and writing. Greg has been instrumental in including new technologies like social media marketing and the embedded videos.
Sandy Sondrol – Author/Photographer
Sandy Sondrol has joined our team as a writer/photographer. He has been actively involved in the dive industry since 1994. During the first ten years of his dive career, he was an instructor, dive guide and dive boat captain for Bob Soto’s Diving on Grand Cayman. He received a captain’s license for U S 500 ton vessels. He later joined Nekton live-aboards, as a marketing exec and a substitute live-aboard captain.
Photo-Journalist and Promoter
Dive Chronicles magazine next lured him into dive journalism as an associate publisher, auther and photographer. He then helped create five regional scuba trade shows in the USA. As a partner in the dive marketing firm “World’s Best Dives”, he promoted international dive resorts and dive operations. Sandy now works as a freelance writer and photographer. His articles have been published in Alert Diver, Scuba Diving, Sport Diver, and Dive News Group. His assignments have taken him to many South Pacific destinations Sipadan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. He has also covered Belize, the Red Sea/Egypt, the Cayman Islands, Roatán, Honduras, Mexico and Curacao. He currently teaches week-long underwater photo seminars at popular scuba destinations.
Shannon Rosenberg – Videographer/Author
With an underwater photographer father and marine biologist mother, Shannon was destined to form a life-long love for the ocean. Snorkeling in Yucatan cenotes, California kelp forests and Hawaiian reefs, quickly deepened into scuba diving when Shannon was certified on the first ever Aggressor youth-centered live-aboard trip in Roatan, Honduras at the age of 12.
In her teens and early twenties, Shannon initially worked as a model, photography and research assistant for Dive Travel Guides to the Galapagos, Cozumel, California, Honduras, the Cayman Islands, Hawaii, Turks and Caicos.
In 2010, she won her first underwater photography competition at the Northern California Monterey Open Water shoot-out. A passion for macro photography slowly widened to the medium of video to capture the dynamism of reef and pelagic life. She is focused on using visual and written stories to explore the beauty of Planet Ocean, sustainable tourism, human relationships to the sea, ecosystem stewardship and conservation, and the innate value of wild spaces.
Based in South East Asia since 2018 for her career in global market dynamics, Shannon currently advises on marketing strategy, provides content related to scuba diving the Coral Triangle and free-diving with sharks and whales in the greater Pacific. Follow her on instagram @ i_heart_hammerheads.