Outline of underwater divers

Underwater divers are people who take part in underwater diving activitiesUnderwater diving is practiced as part of an occupation, or for recreation, where the practitioner submerges below the surface of the water or other liquid for a period which may range between seconds to order of a day at a time, either exposed to the ambient pressure or isolated by a pressure resistant suit, to interact with the underwater environment for pleasure, competitive sport, or as a means to reach a work site for profit or in the pursuit of knowledge, and may use no equipment at all, or a wide range of equipment which may include breathing apparatus, environmental protective clothing, aids to vision, communication, propulsion, maneuverability, buoyancy and safety equipment, and tools for the task at hand.

Who is an underwater diver?

This list refers to people who are notable for their underwater diving activities and for whom a biographical article exists in Wikipedia. The following lists may also be relevant:

Pioneers of diving

Jacques Cousteau
  • James F. Cahill – American scuba diving pioneer
  • Alphonse and Théodore Carmagnolle – French inventors of the first anthropomorphic armoured diving suit
  • Charles Condert – Inventor of an unsuccessful early scuba system
  • Jacques Cousteau – French inventor of open circuit scuba, pioneer diver, author, film-maker and marine researcher
  • Charles Anthony Deane – Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet
  • Guglielmo de Lorena – Italian inventor of a diving bell used for archaeological work on the Roman ships of lake Nemi
  • Auguste Denayrouze – French inventor of a demand air supply regulator for underwater diving
  • Frédéric Dumas – French pioneer of scuba diving
  • Ted Eldred – Australian inventor of the single hose diving regulator
  • Maurice Fernez – French inventor and pioneer in underwater breathing apparatus, respirators and gas masks
  • Émile Gagnan – French engineer and co-inventor of the open circuit demand scuba regulator
  • Bret Gilliam – Pioneering technical diver and author.
  • Edmond Halley – English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
  • Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
  • Stig Insulán – Inventor of an adjustable automatic exhaust valve for variable volume dry suits
  • Jim Jarret – Diver who test dived the first successful atmospheric diving suits
  • Yves Le Prieur – French naval officer and inventor of a free-flow scuba system
  • John Lethbridge – English wool merchant who invented a diving machine in 1715
  • William Hogarth Main – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist
  • Phil Nuytten – Canadian deep-ocean explorer, scientist, and inventor of the Newtsuit
  • Joseph Salim Peress – Pioneering British diving engineer, inventor of some of the first truly usable atmospheric diving suits
  • Benoît Rouquayrol – French inventor of an early diving demand regulator
  • Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving
  • Joe Savoie – Inventor of the neck dam for lightweight helmets
  • Augustus Siebe – German-born British engineer mostly known for his contributions to diving equipment
  • Charles Spalding – Scottish confectioner and amateur diving bell designer
  • Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
  • Arne Zetterström – Diver involved in experimental work with Hydrox breathing gas

Underwater explorers

Underwater scientists, environmentalists and archaeologists

Eugenie Clarke in 2011
Sylvia Earle prepares to dive in a JIM suit
Honor Frost
  • Michael Arbuthnot – Underwater archaeologist and film-maker
  • Carole Baldwin – Vertebrate Zoology department chair at the National Museum of Natural History
  • Robert Ballard – Retired US Navy officer and a professor of oceanography known for maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks
  • George Bass – American pioneer of underwater archaeology
  • Mensun Bound – British marine archaeologist
  • Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
  • James P. Delgado – American maritime archaeologist, explorer and author
  • Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist, explorer, and author
  • John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author
  • George R. Fischer – American underwater archaeologist
  • Anders Franzén – Swedish marine technician and amateur naval archaeologist
  • Honor Frost – Pioneer in underwater archaeology
  • David Gibbins – Underwater archaeologist and novelist
  • Graham Jessop – British commercial diver and marine archaeologist
  • Robert F. Marx – Pioneer American scuba diver known for work with shipwrecks and treasure hunting
  • Charles T. Meide – American underwater archaeologist
  • Simon Mitchell – New Zealand physician and author on diving medicine
  • Mark M. Newell – British/American underwater and terrestrial archaeologist and anthropologist
  • John Peter Oleson – Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology
  • Margaret Rule – British archaeologist who led the Mary Rose project
  • Dee Scarr – Environmentalist, marine naturalist, and scuba diver
  • Gunter Schöbel – German archaeologist and director of the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen
  • Stephanie Schwabe – German geomicrobiologist, diver and underwater researcher
  • E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
  • Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
  • Peter Throckmorton – American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist

Record breakers

Freedivers

Herbert Nitsch
Natalia Molchanova

Scuba divers

Surface supplied and saturation divers

Underwater filmmakers

Hans Hass

Underwater photographers

Tamara Benitez
Peter Scoones
Brian Skerry

Underwater artists

Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Liguria

Combat divers, frogmen and saboteurs

Lionel Crabb
  • Lionel Crabb – Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver
  • Ian Edward Fraser – British military diver. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Sydney Knowles – British naval frogman during and after WWII
  • John H. Lang – American who served with the Canadian Army in World War I and then with the United States Navy through World War II
  • Alain Mafart – French military officer convicted for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
  • Teseo Tesei – Italian naval officer and pioneering military diver

Aquanauts

Scott Carpenter
Sylvia Earle displays samples to aquanaut inside TEKTITE
Albert Falco in 2011
Michael Gernhardt
Karen Kohanowich
Sunita Williams

Aquanaut – Diver who remains at depth underwater for longer than 24 hours

Other (to be allocated)

  • John Chatterton – American wreck diver, co-host for History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives series
  • Leigh Bishop – Diver known for shipwreck exploration and photography
  • Jean-Michel Cousteau – French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer
  • Billy Deans (diver) – American pioneering wreck and technical diver
  • Leonardo D'Imporzano – Italian free-diver and AIDA International Judge
  • Oscar Gugen – A founder of the British Sub-Aqua Club
  • Bob Halstead – Underwater photographer, author, journalist and commentator on the recreational diving industry.
  • Mehgan Heaney-Grier – American free-diver, fashion model, actress, conservationist and television personality
  • Paul Hosie – Australian cave diver
  • Keith Jessop – British salvage diver and treasure hunter
  • Lesley Rochat – South African underwater photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist
  • Willard Franklyn Searle – US Navy ocean engineer and developer of diving and salvage equipment and systems
  • Bill Nagle – American wreck diving pioneer
  • Aristotelis Zervoudis – Greek professional diver

Gallery

See also


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