Biology:Outline of underwater divers
This is a list of underwater divers whose exploits have made them notable.[lower-alpha 1] 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.
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
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- Alphonse Carmagnolle ({{{2}}})and Théodore Carmagnolle ({{{2}}}) Carmagnolle – French inventors of the first anthropomorphic armoured diving suit
- Biography:Edmond Halley – English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
- Biography:Yves Le Prieur – French naval officer and inventor of a free-flow scuba system
- Biography:Joseph Salim Peress – Pioneering British diving engineer, inventor of some of the first truly usable atmospheric diving suits
- Biography:E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist (1947–) underwater archaeology
Underwater explorers
Underwater scientists, environmentalists and archaeologists
- Biography:Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist and lecturer
- Biography:Robert F. Marx – Pioneer American scuba diver known for work with shipwrecks and treasure hunting
- Biography:Stephanie Schwabe – German geomicrobiologist, diver and underwater researcher
- Biography:E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
Freedivers
- Michal Risian ({{{2}}}) – Czech and Slovak freediver
Scuba divers
Surface supplied and saturation divers
Underwater filmmakers
Underwater photographers
- Dermot FitzGerald ({{{2}}}) – Irish photographer
- Biography:Henry Way Kendall – American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Biography:E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
Underwater artists
Combat divers, frogmen and saboteurs
Aquanauts
- Astronauts – Commander, pilot, or crew member of a spacecraft
- Biography:Berry L. Cannon – American aquanaut who died in a diving incident.
- Biography:Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist and lecturer
- Biography:Paul Hill (flight director) – Former Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- Biography:Jon Lindbergh – American aquanaut, commercial diver and pioneer cave diver
- Biography:Tara Ruttley – Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Biography:Steve Squyres – Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University
Cave divers
- Jon Lindbergh – Pioneering American cave diver and early aquanaut (1932-2021)
Notable for other reasons
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- Biography:Willard Franklyn Searle – US Navy ocean engineer and developer of diving and salvage equipment and systems
See also
- Biology:Outline of underwater diving – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to underwater diving
Footnotes
- ↑ Notability to qualify for this list is established by having, as a minimum requirement, a biographical article on English Wikipedia, in which their notability as a diver is explained.
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