Outline of underwater divers
Underwater divers are people who take part in underwater diving activities – Underwater 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.
Contents
- 1 Who is an underwater diver?
- 2 Pioneers of diving
- 3 Underwater explorers
- 4 Underwater scientists, environmentalists and archaeologists
- 5 Record breakers
- 6 Underwater filmmakers
- 7 Underwater photographers
- 8 Underwater artists
- 9 Combat divers, frogmen and saboteurs
- 10 Aquanauts
- 11 Other (to be allocated)
- 12 Gallery
- 13 See also
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:
- Index of underwater divers – Alphabetical listing of articles about underwater divers
- List of underwater divers – List of underwater divers whose exploits have made them notable.
Pioneers of diving
- 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
- Craig Challen – Australian veterinary surgeon and technical diver
- Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
- Martyn Farr – British cave diver
- Richard Harris – Irish actor, singer, film director and writer
- Lamar Hires
- Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker
- William Hogarth Main – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist
- Jason Mallinson
- Agnes Milowka – Australian cave diver
- Rick Stanton – American actor
- Bill Stone – American engineer, caver and explorer
- Krzysztof Starnawski – Polish technical and cave diver
- John Volanthen – British volunteer cave diver who specialises in rescues
Underwater scientists, environmentalists and archaeologists
- 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
- Deborah Andollo – Cuban free diver and diving instructor
- Peppo Biscarini – Italian and American swimmer, freediver, and actor
- Sara Campbell – British free diver and former world record holder
- Derya Can – Turkish world record holder female free-diver
- Goran Čolak – Croatian free-diver and world record holder
- Carlos Coste – Venezuelan freediver and world record holder
- Robert Croft – American freediver and US Navy diving instructor
- Mandy-Rae Cruickshank – Canadian world champion freediver and record holder
- Yasemin Dalkılıç – Turkish freediver and record holder
- Flavia Eberhard – Brazilian free-diver and presenter of TV series "APNEIA"
- Şahika Ercümen – Turkish dietician and world record holding freediver
- Emma Farrell – British freediving instructor and author
- Francisco Ferreras – Cuban freediver also known as "Pipin"
- Pierre Frolla – Monegasque free-diver and world record holder
- Elisabeth Kristoffersen – Norwegian freediver and president of AIDA Norway
- Loïc Leferme – French freediving record breaker
- Jacques Mayol – French freediving world record holder
- Audrey Mestre – French world record-setting freediver
- Enzo Maiorca – Italian free diver who held several world records
- Karol Meyer – Brazilian free-diver world record holder and professional cyclist for Avai Cycle Team
- Stéphane Mifsud – French free diver and five time world champion in static apnea
- Alexey Molchanov – Russian freediver and world record holder
- Natalia Molchanova – Russian multiple world record holding freediver
- Dave Mullins – New Zealand freediver and world record-holder
- Patrick Musimu – Belgian freediver
- Guillaume Néry – French freediver
- Herbert Nitsch – Austrian freediver and world record holder
- Umberto Pelizzari – Italian freediver
- Annelie Pompe – Swedish freediver and mountaineer
- Michal Risian – Czech and Slovak freediving champion
- Stig Severinsen – Danish freediver, record holder and author
- Tom Sietas – German freediver and record holder
- Aharon Solomons – Anglo-Israeli former Army officer, holder of the Israeli national record for freediving.
- Martin Štěpánek – Czech freediver and record-holder
- Walter Steyn – Australian competitive freediver, freediving judge and freediving instructor
- Tanya Streeter – British-Caymanian-American freediver
- William Trubridge – New Zealand freediver and record holder
- Devrim Cenk Ulusoy – Turkish freediver and world record holder
- Danai Varveri – Greek freediver and record holder
- Alessia Zecchini – Italian freediver who set world and Italian records
Scuba divers
- John Bennett (diver) – British technical diver and former record holder lost in commercial diving incident
- Pascal Bernabé – French claimant to scuba diving depth record
- Jim Bowden (diver) – Record breaking technical and cave diver
- Mark Ellyatt – British technical diver and previous depth record holder
- Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
- Ahmed Gabr – Egyptian diver and scuba depth record holder
- Nuno Gomes – South African diver and holder of scuba depth record
- Claudia Serpieri – Italian technical diver and depth record holder
- David Shaw
Surface supplied and saturation divers
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Underwater filmmakers
- Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro – Catalan scuba diving pioneer and underwater filmmaker
- Samir Alhafith – Australian technical diver, cave explorer and adult underwater filmmaker
- Henri Bource – Dutch-Australian scuba diver, underwater filmmaker, musician and shark attack survivor
- Scott Cassell – American underwater film maker.
- Jacques Cousteau – French inventor of open circuit scuba, pioneer diver, author, film-maker and marine researcher
- Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman
- Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
- Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker
- Kevin Juergensen – Filmmaker, diver, and CEO of Juergensen Marine
- Henry Kaiser (musician) – American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
- Ron and Valerie Taylor – Australian divers and shark cinematographers
- Stan Waterman
- Andrew Wight – Australian screenwriter and producer
Underwater photographers
- Tamara Benitez – Filipina cinematographer
- Georges Beuchat – French inventor, diver and businessman
- Adrian Biddle – English cinematographer
- Jonathan Bird – American photographer, cinematographer, director and television host.
- Eric Cheng – Taiwanese American entrepreneur and professional photographer
- Neville Coleman – Australian naturalist, underwater photographer, writer, publisher and educator
- Jacques Cousteau – French inventor of open circuit scuba, pioneer diver, author, film-maker and marine researcher
- John D. Craig – American businessman, writer, soldier, and diver
- Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman
- Bernard Delemotte – French diver and photographer
- David Doubilet – Underwater photographer and author
- John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author
- Dermot FitzGerald – Irish businessman
- Rodney Fox – Australian diver, film maker and conservationist
- Ric Frazier – American photographer
- Stephen Frink – Underwater photographer and publisher
- Peter Gimbel – American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist
- Monty Halls – British TV broadcaster, diver and naturalist
- Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
- Henry Way Kendall – American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Rudie Kuiter
- Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut
- Luis Marden – American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist
- Agnes Milowka – Australian cave diver
- Bruce Mozert
- Alex Mustard
- Noel Monkman – New Zealand born Australian filmmaker specialising in underwater photography
- Steve Parish – British born Australian photographer and publisher
- Zale Parry – American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress
- Pierre Petit – Early French photographer. First to attempt underwater photography
- Leni Riefenstahl – German, Nazi, film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer, and Nazi propagandist
- Peter Scoones – Underwater cameraman
- Brian Skerry – American photojournalist
- Wesley C. Skiles – American cave diver and underwater cinematographer.
- E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
- Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer
- Ron and Valerie Taylor – Australian divers and shark cinematographers
- Albert Tillman – American educator and underwater diver.
- John Veltri – American filmmaker and underwater photographer
- Stan Waterman
- Michele Westmorland – American underwater photographer
- J. Lamar Worzel – American geophysicist and underwater photographer
Underwater artists
- Jason deCaires Taylor – British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park
Combat divers, frogmen and saboteurs
- 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
Aquanaut – Diver who remains at depth underwater for longer than 24 hours
- Astronauts – Person who commands, pilots, or serves as a crew member of a spacecraft
- Joseph M. Acaba – American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut
- Clayton Anderson – Retired NASA astronaut and member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew
- Richard R. Arnold – American educator and NASA astronaut on Space Shuttle mission STS-119
- Serena Auñón-Chancellor – American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
- Michael Barratt (astronaut) – American aerospace medicine physician and a NASA astronaut with two flights
- Robert L. Behnken – United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Astronaut Office
- Randolph Bresnik – United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut on three expeditions
- Scott Carpenter – American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut
- Gregory Chamitoff – Canadian born engineer and NASA astronaut
- Catherine Coleman – American chemist and former United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut
- Timothy Creamer – NASA flight director, retired astronaut and a colonel in the United States Army
- Jeanette J. Epps
- Andrew J. Feustel – Geophysicist and NASA astronaut
- Michael Fincke – United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut
- Satoshi Furukawa – Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut
- Ronald J. Garan Jr. – American astronaut
- Michael L. Gernhardt – NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory
- Chris Hadfield – retired Canadian astronaut
- Jeremy Hansen – Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency
- José M. Hernández – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- John Herrington – Retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut
- Akihiko Hoshide – Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut
- Norishige Kanai – Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut
- Scott Kelly (astronaut) – American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy captain
- Timothy Kopra – Engineer, Colonel in the United States Army, and former commander of the International Space Station
- Michael López-Alegría – American astronaut
- Sandra Magnus – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- Thomas Marshburn – American physician and NASA astronaut
- K. Megan McArthur – American oceanographer and NASA astronaut
- Jessica Meir – astronaut, physiologist
- Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger – Former American astronaut
- Andreas Mogensen – Danish engineer and ESA astronaut
- Soichi Noguchi – Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut
- Karen Nyberg – American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut
- John D. Olivas – American engineer and a former NASA astronaut
- Takuya Onishi – Japanese engineer, commercial pilot and astronaut from JAXA
- Luca Parmitano – Italian engineer, pilot and ESA astronaut
- Nicholas Patrick – British-American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- Tim Peake – British Army Air Corps officer and European Space Agency astronaut
- Thomas Pesquet – French aerospace engineer, pilot, and astronaut
- Marc Reagan – American Station Training Lead in Mission Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Garrett Reisman – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- Kathleen Rubins – American microbiologist and NASA astronaut
- David Saint-Jacques – Canadian engineer, astrophysicist, physician and CSA astronaut
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut
- Hervé Stevenin – European aquanaut at the European Astronaut Centre
- Nicole Stott – American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Daniel M. Tani – American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Robert Thirsk – Canadian engineer and physician, and former CSA astronaut
- Bill Todd – Project Manager for Exploration Analogs at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Mark T. Vande Hei – American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Koichi Wakata – Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut
- Rex J. Walheim – United States Air Force officer, engineer and a NASA astronaut.
- Shannon Walker – American scientist and NASA astronaut
- Douglas H. Wheelock – American engineer and astronaut.
- Peggy Whitson – American biochemistry researcher and NASA astronaut
- Dafydd Williams – Canadian physician, public speaker and retired CSA astronaut
- Jeffrey Williams (astronaut) – Retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut
- Sunita Williams – American astronaut and United States Navy officer
- Gregory R. Wiseman – American astronaut, engineer, and naval aviator
- Kimiya Yui – Japanese pilot and JAXA astronaut
- Andrew Abercromby – Biomedical engineer
- Timothy J. Broderick – Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati
- Berry L. Cannon – American aquanaut who died in a diving incident.
- Justin Brown (aquanaut) – American professional aquanaut and habitat technician
- Steve Chappell – American aerospace engineer
- Robin Cook (American novelist) – American physician and novelist
- Craig B. Cooper – American aquanaut
- Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker
- Philippe Cousteau – French diver and cinematographer
- Jonathan Dory – Human Systems Integration Lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist, explorer, and author
- Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
- Albert Falco – French scuba diver, chief diver and captain of the Calypso
- Christopher E. Gerty – American aerospace engineer who worked on NASA's Constellation Program
- Paul Hill (flight director) – Former Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- Mark Hulsbeck – American professional aquanaut. Oceanographic Operations Field Manager and research diver for the Aquarius Reef Base
- Emma Hwang – Scientist with Wyle Laboratories and aquanaut on NEEMO 5
- Les Kaufman – American evolutionary ecologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems
- Karen Kohanowich – American aquanaut and ex US Navy diver
- Dominic Landucci – American professional aquanaut and Network Analyst at the NOAA Aquarius Reef Base
- Jon Lindbergh – American aquanaut, commercial diver and pioneer cave diver
- Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut
- Craig McKinley (physician) – Canadian physician and aquanaut
- Simone Melchior – First woman scuba diver and aquanaut
- Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving
- Tara Ruttley – Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Josef Schmid (flight surgeon) – NASA flight surgeon and Major General in the United States Air Force Reserves
- Monika Schultz
- Robert Sheats – American Master Diver retired from the United States Navy
- Dewey Smith – American aquanaut. Died in diving accident.
- Steve Squyres – Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University
- Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
- James Talacek – American professional aquanaut
- Joachim Wendler – German aquanaut who died in a diving accident
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
- Glossary of underwater diving terminology – Definitions of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving
- Outline of underwater diving – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to underwater diving
- Index of underwater divers – Alphabetical listing of articles about underwater divers
- Index of underwater diving – Alphabetical listing of underwater diving related articles
- Index of recreational dive sites – Alphabetical listing of popular places for underwater diving