This is a list of underwater divers [a] 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.
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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:
Jacques Cousteau Victor Berge – Swedish diving pioneer and author (1891–1974)Alberto Gianni – Italian underwater diver and inventor (1891–1930)James F. Cahill – American scuba diving pioneer (1926–2008) [1] Alphonse and Théodore Carmagnolle – Inventors of an early atmospheric diving suit Charles Condert – American inventor of a failed underwater breathing apparatus Jacques Cousteau – French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997) Charles Anthony Deane – Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet Guglielmo de Lorena – Underwater archaeologist who invented a diving bell Auguste Denayrouze – French inventor of a demand air supply regulator for underwater diving Philippe Diolé – French author and undersea explorer (1908–1977)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 Émile Gagnan – French engineer and co-inventor of the open circuit demand scuba regulator Gary Gentile – American author and pioneering technical diver (1946–)Bret Gilliam – Pioneering technical diver and author (1951–2023) Edmond Halley – English astronomer (1656–1742) Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer (1919–2013)Stig Insulán – Inventor of an adjustable automatic exhaust valve for variable volume dry suits Jim Jarret – Test diver of the first successful atmospheric diving suit 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 Tom Mount – Pioneering technical and cave diver (1939–2022) Bill Nagle – American wreck diving pioneer (1952–1993) wreck divingPhil Nuytten – Canadian deep-ocean explorer, scientist, and inventor of the Newtsuit Joseph Salim Peress – Pioneering British diving engineer 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 – Diver and inventor of diving helmets Augustus Siebe – British engineer mostly known for his contributions to diving equipment Charles Spalding – Scottish confectioner and amateur diving bell designer E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist (1947–)′Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut. Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer (1905–2002)Teseo Tesei – Italian naval officer and pioneering military diver (1909–1941) inventor of human torpedoArne Zetterström – Swedish diver and researcher (1917–1945)
Eugenie Clarke in 2011 Sylvia Earle prepares to dive in a JIM suit Honor Frost
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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 Nuno Gomes – South African diver and holder of scuba depth record Simon Mitchell – New Zealand physician and author on diving medicine Claudia Serpieri – Italian technical diver and depth record holder Dave Shaw – Australian technical diver and former record holder killed in a diving incident Krzysztof Starnawski – Polish technical and cave diver
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Hans Hass 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 naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997) 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 Henry Kaiser (musician) – American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver Ron Taylor – Australian diver and shark cinematographer Valerie Taylor – Australian underwater photographer Stan Waterman – American cinematographer and underwater film producer (1923–2023) Andrew Wight – Australian screenwriter and producer (1959–2012)
Tamara Benitez Peter Scoones Brian Skerry Tamara Benitez – Filipina cinematographer Georges Beuchat – French inventor, diver and businessman Adrian Biddle – English cinematographer (1952–2005) 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 naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997) John D. Craig – American businessman, writer, soldier, and diver Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman Bernard Delemotte – French diver and photographer (1939–2023) David Doubilet – Underwater photographer and author John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author Dermot FitzGerald [ Wikidata ] 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 (1927–1987) 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 Hermann Kuiter – Dutch-born Australian underwater photographer, taxonomist, and marine biologist 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 – American photographer Noel Monkman – New Zealand born Australian filmmaker specialising in underwater photography Steve Parish – British born Australian photographer and publisher Zale Parry – American scuba diver, photographer and actress (born 1933) Pierre Petit – French photographer (1831–1909) Leni Riefenstahl – German filmmaker (1902–2003) Peter Scoones – Underwater cameraman Brian Skerry – American film producer and photojournalist Wesley C. Skiles – American cave diver and cinematographer E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer Ron Taylor – Australian diver and shark cinematographer Valerie Taylor – Australian underwater photographer Albert Tillman – American educator and underwater diver John Veltri – American filmmaker and underwater photographer Stan Waterman – American cinematographer and underwater film producer (1923–2023) Michele Westmorland – American underwater photographer J. Lamar Worzel – American geophysicist and underwater photographer
Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Liguria
Lionel Crabb Lionel Crabb – Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver Ian Edward Fraser – Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient (1920–2008) Sydney Knowles – British naval frogman during and after WWII John H. Lang – American soldier and sailor (1899–1970) 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
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
Astronauts – Commander, pilot, or 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 Serena Auñón-Chancellor – American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt (astronaut) – American aerospace medicine physician and astronaut born 1959 Bob Behnken – US Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Astronaut Office (born 1970) Randolph Bresnik – United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut on three expeditions Scott Carpenter – American astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013) Gregory Chamitoff – Canadian born engineer and NASA astronaut (born 1962) Catherine Coleman – American astronaut, chemist, engineer and USAF colonel (born 1960) Timothy Creamer – NASA flight director, astronaut and US Army officer Jeanette Epps – American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut born 1970 Andrew J. Feustel – American-Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist Michael Fincke – American astronaut and USAF colonel (born 1967) Satoshi Furukawa – Japanese surgeon and astronaut (born 1964) Ronald J. Garan Jr. – American astronaut Michael L. Gernhardt – NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory (born 1956) Chris Hadfield – Canadian astronaut (born 1959) Jeremy Hansen – Canadian astronaut and future lunar explorer (born 1976) José M. Hernández – American engineer and former NASA astronaut John Herrington – Native American astronaut, aviator and engineer (born 1958) Akihiko Hoshide – Japanese astronaut and engineer (born 1968) Norishige Kanai – Japanese doctor and astronaut (born 1976) Scott Kelly (astronaut) – American engineer and astronaut (born 1964) Timothy Kopra – American astronaut Michael López-Alegría – Spanish-American astronaut (born 1958) Sandra Magnus – American astronaut and engineer (born 1964) Thomas Marshburn – American physician and NASA astronaut K. Megan McArthur – American oceanographer and NASA astronaut (born 1971) Jessica Meir – American astronaut and marine biologist Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger – American astronaut Andreas Mogensen – Danish engineer and astronaut (born 1976) Soichi Noguchi – Japanese astronaut and engineer (born 1965) Karen Nyberg – American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut John D. Olivas – American engineer and a former NASA astronaut Takuya Onishi – Japanese astronaut, engineer and pilot (born 1975) Luca Parmitano – Italian astronaut, pilot and engineer (born 1976) Nicholas Patrick – British-American astronaut and engineer (born 1964) Tim Peake – British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut (born 1972) Thomas Pesquet – French aerospace engineer, pilot, and astronaut (born 1978) Marc Reagan – American Station Training Lead in Mission Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center Garrett Reisman – American engineer and former NASA astronaut (born 1968) Kathleen Rubins – American microbiologist and NASA astronaut David Saint-Jacques – Canadian astronaut (born 1970) Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – American astronaut and Navy captain (born 1963) Hervé Stevenin – European aquanaut at the European Astronaut Centre (born 1962) Nicole Stott – American engineer and former astronaut (born 1962) Daniel M. Tani – American astronaut and engineer (born 1961) Robert Thirsk – Canadian engineer, astronaut and physician (born 1953) 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 astronaut (born 1963) Rex J. Walheim – American astronaut, engineer and USAF colonel (born 1962) Shannon Walker – American scientist and NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock – American engineer and astronaut (born 1960) Peggy Whitson – American astronaut and biochemistry researcher (born 1960) Dafydd Williams – Canadian astronaut, physician and public speaker (born 1954) Jeffrey Williams (astronaut) – American astronaut and US Army officer (born 1958) Sunita Williams – American astronaut and Navy officer (born 1965) Gregory R. Wiseman – American astronaut, engineer, and naval aviator (born 1975) Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Kimiya Yui – Japanese pilot and astronaut (born 1970) Andrew Abercromby – Biomedical engineer from Scotland working for NASA 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 (1935–1969) Justin Brown (aquanaut) – American professional aquanaut and habitat technician Steve Chappell – American aerospace engineer Robin Cook (American novelist) – American physician and novelist (born 1940) Craig B. Cooper – American aquanaut Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker Philippe Cousteau – French diver and cinematographer (1940–1979) Jonathan Dory – Human Systems Integration Lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist and lecturer 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 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 underwater diver (1932–2021) Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut Craig McKinley (physician) – Canadian physician and aquanaut Simone Melchior – First woman scuba diver and aquanaut (1919–1990) Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving Tara Ruttley – Associate Chief Scientist for Microgravity Research at NASA Headquarters Josef Schmid (flight surgeon) – NASA flight surgeon and Major General in the United States Air Force Reserves 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 (1939–1975)
Notability to qualify for this list is established by having, as a minimum requirement, cited mention in an article on English Wikipedia, in which their notability as a diver is explained.
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