Index of underwater divers
The following index is provided as an overview of and topical guide to underwater divers:
- See the Glossary of underwater diving terminology for definitions of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving
- See the Outline of underwater diving for a hierararchical listing of underwater diving related articles
- See the Outline of underwater divers for a hierararchical listing of biographical articles on underwater divers
- See the Index of underwater diving for an alphabetical listing of underwater diving related articles
- See the Index of recreational dive sites for an alphabetical listing of underwater dive site related articles
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.
A
- Andrew Abercromby – Biomedical engineer
- Joseph M. Acaba – American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut
- Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro – Catalan scuba diving pioneer and underwater filmmaker
- Samir Alhafith – Australian technical diver, cave explorer and adult underwater filmmaker
- Clayton Anderson – Retired NASA astronaut and member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew
- Deborah Andollo – Cuban free diver and diving instructor
- David Apperley – Australian cave diver
- Michael Arbuthnot – Underwater archaeologist and film-maker
- Ricardo Armbruster – Spanish ecologist, adventurer and entrepreneur
- Richard R. Arnold – American educator and NASA astronaut on Space Shuttle mission STS-119
- David Attenborough – British broadcaster and naturalist
- Serena Auñón-Chancellor – American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
B
- Roger Baldwin (diver) represented by Waage Drill II diving accident – A fatal saturation diving accident in the North Sea in 1975
- Robert Ballard – Retired US Navy officer and a professor of oceanography known for maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks
- Carole Baldwin – Vertebrate Zoology department chair at the National Museum of Natural History
- Michael C. Barnette – American underwater diver, author and founder of the Association of Underwater Explorers
- Michael Barratt (astronaut) – American aerospace medicine physician and a NASA astronaut with two flights
- George Bass – American pioneer of underwater archaeology
- Robert L. Behnken
- David Bellamy – English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner
- Tamara Benitez – Filipina cinematographer
- John Bennett (diver) – British technical diver and former record holder lost in commercial diving incident
- Victor Berge – Swedish diving pioneer and author
- Georges Beuchat – French inventor, diver and businessman
- Pascal Bernabé – French claimant to scuba diving depth record
- Adrian Biddle – English cinematographer
- Jonathan Bird – American photographer, cinematographer, director and television host.
- Peppo Biscarini – Italian and American swimmer, freediver, and actor
- Leigh Bishop – Diver known for shipwreck exploration and photography
- Mensun Bound – British marine archaeologist
- Henri Bource – Dutch-Australian scuba diver, underwater filmmaker, musician and shark attack survivor
- Louis Boutan – French biologist, photographer and zoologist
- Jim Bowden (diver) – Record breaking technical and cave diver
- Hugh Bradner – American physicist and inventor of the neoprene wetsuit
- Ramón Bravo – Mexican diver photographer and underwater filmmaker
- Randolph Bresnik – United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut on three expeditions
- Allan Bridge – American conceptual artist
- Lloyd Bridges – American film, stage and television actor
- David Bright (diver) – Wreck diver
- Timothy J. Broderick – Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati
- Justin Brown (aquanaut) – American professional aquanaut and habitat technician
C
- James F. Cahill – American scuba diving pioneer
- Sara Campbell – British free diver and former world record holder
- Derya Can – Turkish world record holder female free-diver
- Berry L. Cannon – American aquanaut who died in a diving incident.
- Scott Carpenter – American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut
- Scott Cassell – American underwater film maker.
- Craig Challen – Australian veterinary surgeon and technical diver
- Gregory Chamitoff – Canadian born engineer and NASA astronaut
- Steve Chappell – American aerospace engineer
- John Chatterton – American wreck diver, co-host for History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives series
- Eric Cheng – Taiwanese American entrepreneur and professional photographer
- Cathy Church – American marine biologist, diver, photographer and educator
- Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
- Goran Čolak – Croatian free-diver and world record holder
- Catherine Coleman – American chemist and former United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut
- Neville Coleman – Australian naturalist, underwater photographer, writer, publisher and educator
- Robin Cook – American physician and novelist
- Craig B. Cooper – American aquanaut
- Carlos Coste – Venezuelan freediver and world record holder
- Cotton Coulson – Photographer known for his work for National Geographic magazine
- Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker
- Jacques Cousteau – French inventor of open circuit scuba, pioneer diver, author, film-maker and marine researcher
- Jean-Michel Cousteau – French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer
- Philippe Cousteau – French diver and cinematographer
- Cláudio Coutinho – Brazilian football manager and coach
- Lionel Crabb – Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver
- John D. Craig – American businessman, writer, soldier, and diver
- Timothy Creamer – NASA flight director, retired astronaut and a colonel in the United States Army
- Robert Croft – American freediver and US Navy diving instructor
- Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman
- Mandy-Rae Cruickshank – Canadian world champion freediver and record holder
- Clive Cussler – American adventure novelist and underwater explorer
D
- Yasemin Dalkılıç – Turkish freediver and record holder
- E. Yale Dawson – American botanist and seaweed taxonomist
- John Day (carpenter) – First recorded death in a diving chamber
- Charles Anthony Deane – Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet
- Billy Deans (diver) – American pioneering wreck and technical diver
- Bernard Delemotte – French diver and photographer
- James P. Delgado – American maritime archaeologist, explorer and author
- François de Roubaix – French film score composer
- Auguste Denayrouze – French inventor of a demand air supply regulator for underwater diving
- Leonardo D'Imporzano – Italian free-diver and AIDA International Judge
- Philippe Diolé – French author and undersea explorer
- Jonathan Dory – Human Systems Integration Lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- David Doubilet – Underwater photographer and author
- Deon Dreyer – South African scuba diver who died in Bushman's Hole
- Milan Dufek – Czech singer, composer, guitarist and flautist
- Frédéric Dumas – French pioneer of scuba diving
E
- Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist, explorer, and author
- Flavia Eberhard – Brazilian free-diver and presenter of TV series "APNEIA"
- Mark Ellyatt – British technical diver and previous depth record holder
- Ted Eldred – Australian inventor of the single hose diving regulator
- Jeanette J. Epps
- Şahika Ercümen – Turkish dietician and world record holding freediver
- Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
F
- Albert Falco – French scuba diver, chief diver and captain of the Calypso
- Maurice Fargues – French navy diver. First scuba fatality using aqualung for a depth record attempt
- Martyn Farr – British cave diver
- Emma Farrell – British freediving instructor and author
- Maurice Fernez – French inventor and pioneer in underwater breathing apparatus, respirators and gas masks
- Francisco Ferreras – Cuban freediver also known as "Pipin"
- Andrew J. Feustel – American-Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist
- Michael Fincke – United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut
- John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author
- George R. Fischer – American underwater archaeologist
- Dermot FitzGerald – Irish businessman
- Rodney Fox – Australian diver, film maker and conservationist
- Anders Franzén – Swedish marine technician and amateur naval archaeologist
- Ian Edward Fraser – British military diver. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Ric Frazier – American photographer
- Stephen Frink – Underwater photographer and publisher
- Pierre Frolla – Monegasque free-diver and world record holder
- Honor Frost – Pioneer in underwater archaeology
- Satoshi Furukawa – Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut
G
- Ahmed Gabr
- Émile Gagnan – French engineer and co-inventor of the open circuit demand scuba regulator
- Ronald J. Garan Jr. – American astronaut
- Guy Garman – Scuba diver who died in a depth record attempt
- Gary Gentile – American author and pioneering technical diver
- Michael L. Gernhardt – NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory
- Christopher E. Gerty – American aerospace engineer who worked on NASA's Constellation Program
- David Gibbins – Underwater archaeologist and novelist
- Bret Gilliam – Pioneering technical diver and author.
- Peter Gimbel – American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist
- Nuno Gomes – South African diver and holder of scuba depth record
- Oscar Gugen – A founder of the British Sub-Aqua Club
- Victor F. Guiel Jr. – Saturation diver killed in the Wldrake diving acident
H
- Chris Hadfield – Retired Canadian astronaut
- Edmond Halley – English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
- Monty Halls – British TV broadcaster, diver and naturalist
- Willy Halpert - founder of Aquasport first Middle East Diving Centre
- Bob Halstead – Underwater photographer, author, journalist and commentator on the recreational diving industry.
- Jeremy Hansen – Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency
- Guy Harvey – Jamaican marine wildlife artist and conservationist
- Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
- Mehgan Heaney-Grier – American free-diver, fashion model, actress, conservationist and television personality
- Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker
- José M. Hernández – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- John Herrington – Retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut
- Paul Hill (flight director) – Former Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- Gene Hobbs – American technical diver and co-founder of the Rubicon Foundation
- Craig M. Hoffman – Diver killed in the Venture One diving accident
- Peter Henry Michael Holmes – Saturation diver killed in the Waage Drill II diving accident
- Akihiko Hoshide – Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut
- 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
I
- Steve Irwin – Australian zookeeper, conservationist and television personality
J
- Jarrod Jablonski – Pioneer American cave diver, author and previous cave diving record holder
- Trevor Jackson (diver) – Australian technical diver and author
- Graham Jessop – British commercial diver and marine archaeologist
- Keith Jessop – British salvage diver and treasure hunter
- Jim Jones (American football, born 1935) – American football defensive back
- Kevin Juergensen – Filmmaker, diver, and CEO of Juergensen Marine
K
- Henry Kaiser (musician) – American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
- Norishige Kanai – Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut
- Les Kaufman – American evolutionary ecologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems
- Scott Kelly (astronaut) – American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy captain
- Henry Way Kendall – American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Sydney Knowles – British naval frogman during and after WWII
- Karen Kohanowich – American aquanaut and ex US Navy diver
- Richie Kohler – American technical diver and shipwreck historian
- Timothy Kopra – Engineer, Colonel in the United States Army, and former commander of the International Space Station
- Artur Kozłowski (speleologist) – Polish cave diver
- Elisabeth Kristoffersen – Norwegian freediver and president of AIDA Norway
- Rudie Hermann Kuiter – Dutch-born Australian underwater photographer, taxonomist, and marine biologist
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- Dominic Landucci – American professional aquanaut and Network Analyst at the NOAA Aquarius Reef Base
- 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
- Richard Larn – British shipwreck historian
- Loïc Leferme – French freediving record breaker
- 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
- Steve Lewis (diver) – Technical scuba diver and author
- Jon Lindbergh – American aquanaut, commercial diver and pioneer cave diver
- Edwin Clayton Link represented by Johnson Sea Link accident – Manned submersible incident in which two divers died
- Michael López-Alegría – American astronaut
M
- K. Megan McArthur – American oceanographer and NASA astronaut
- Kirsty MacColl – English singer and songwriter
- Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut
- Craig McKinley (physician) – Canadian physician and aquanaut
- Alain Mafart – French military officer convicted for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
- Sandra Magnus – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- William Hogarth Main – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist
- Enzo Maiorca – Italian free diver who held several world records
- Luis Marden – American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist
- Thomas Marshburn – American physician and NASA astronaut
- Robert F. Marx – Pioneer American scuba diver known for work with shipwrecks and treasure hunting
- John Mattera – American wreck diver and author
- Jacques Mayol – French freediving world record holder
- Charles T. Meide – American underwater archaeologist
- Jessica Meir – astronaut, physiologist
- Simone Melchior – First woman scuba diver and aquanaut
- Audrey Mestre – French world record-setting freediver
- Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger – Former American astronaut
- Nicholas Mevoli – American freediver who died while attempting to set a record
- 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
- Agnes Milowka – Australian cave diver
- Simon Mitchell – New Zealand physician and author on diving medicine
- Andreas Mogensen – Danish engineer and ESA astronaut
- Alexey Molchanov – Russian freediver and world record holder
- Natalia Molchanova – Russian multiple world record holding freediver
- Noel Monkman – New Zealand born Australian filmmaker specialising in underwater photography
- Tom Mount – Pioneering technical and cave diver
- Dave Mullins – New Zealand freediver and world record-holder
- Patrick Musimu – Belgian freediver
N
- Bill Nagle – American wreck diving pioneer
- Guillaume Néry – French freediver
- Mark M. Newell – British/American underwater and terrestrial archaeologist and anthropologist
- Herbert Nitsch – Austrian freediver and world record holder
- Soichi Noguchi – Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut
- Phil Nuytten – Canadian deep-ocean explorer, scientist, and inventor of the Newtsuit
- Karen Nyberg – American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut
O
- John Peter Oleson – Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology
- John D. Olivas – American engineer and a former NASA astronaut
- Takuya Onishi – Japanese engineer, commercial pilot and astronaut from JAXA
P
- Steve Parish – British born Australian photographer and publisher
- Luca Parmitano – Italian engineer, pilot and ESA astronaut
- Zale Parry – American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress
- Nicholas Patrick – British-American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- Tim Peake – British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
- Umberto Pelizzari – Italian freediver
- Pierre Petit – Early French photographer. First to attempt underwater photography
- Joseph Salim Peress – Pioneering British diving engineer, inventor of some of the first truly usable atmospheric diving suits
- Thomas Pesquet – French aerospace engineer, pilot, and astronaut
- Annelie Pompe – Swedish freediver and mountaineer
- Gerard Anthony Prangley represented by Star Canopus diving accident – Fatal offshore diving bell accident in 1978
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- Marc Reagan – American Station Training Lead in Mission Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Garrett Reisman – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
- Leni Riefenstahl – German film director, photographer, actress, dancer, and Nazi propagandist
- Michal Risian – Czech and Slovak freediving champion
- Lesley Rochat – South African underwater photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist
- Benoît Rouquayrol – French inventor of an early diving demand regulator
- Chris and Chrissy Rouse, represented by The Last Dive – Non-fiction book by Bernie Chowdhury about a double wreck diving fatality
- Kathleen Rubins – American microbiologist and NASA astronaut
- Margaret Rule – British archaeologist who led the Mary Rose project
- 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
S
- David Saint-Jacques – Canadian engineer, astrophysicist, physician and CSA astronaut
- Dee Scarr – Environmentalist, marine naturalist, and scuba diver
- Josef Schmid (flight surgeon) – NASA flight surgeon and Major General in the United States Air Force Reserves
- Gunter Schöbel – German archaeologist and director of the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen
- Monika Schultz
- Stephanie Schwabe – German geomicrobiologist, diver and underwater researcher
- Peter Scoones – Underwater cameraman
- Willard Franklyn Searle – US Navy ocean engineer and developer of diving and salvage equipment and systems
- Claudia Serpieri – Italian technical diver and depth record holder
- Stig Severinsen – Danish freediver, record holder and author
- David Shaw
- Robert Sheats – American Master Diver retired from the United States Navy
- Augustus Siebe – German-born British engineer mostly known for his contributions to diving equipment
- Tom Sietas – German freediver and record holder
- Brian Skerry – American photojournalist
- Wesley C. Skiles – American cave diver and underwater cinematographer.
- Pier Skipness represented by Drill Master diving accident – Fatal diving bell accident off Norway in 1974
- Dewey Smith – American aquanaut. Died in diving accident.
- Robert John Smyth represented by Drill Master diving accident – Fatal diving bell accident off Norway in 1974
- Aharon Solomons – Anglo-Israeli former Army officer, holder of the Israeli national record for freediving.
- Charles Spalding – Scottish confectioner and amateur diving bell designer
- E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
- Steve Squyres – Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University
- Richard Stanton (cave diver) – British civilian cave diver who specializes in rescues
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut
- Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
- Martin Štěpánek – Czech freediver and record-holder
- Hervé Stevenin – European aquanaut at the European Astronaut Centre
- Rob Stewart (filmmaker) – Canadian photographer, filmmaker and conservationist
- Walter Steyn – Australian competitive freediver, freediving judge and freediving instructor
- Bill Stone – American engineer, caver and explorer
- Nicole Stott – American engineer and a NASA astronaut
- Albert D. Stover represented by Johnson Sea Link accident – Manned submersible incident in which two divers died
- Tanya Streeter – British-Caymanian-American freediver
- Esbjörn Svensson – Swedish jazz pianist
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- Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer
- Daniel M. Tani – American engineer and NASA astronaut
- James Talacek – American professional aquanaut
- Jason deCaires Taylor – British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park
- Ron and Valerie Taylor
- Teseo Tesei – Italian naval officer and pioneering military diver
- Robert Thirsk – Canadian engineer and physician, and former CSA astronaut
- Peter Throckmorton – American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist
- Albert Tillman – American educator and underwater diver.
- Bill Todd – Project Manager for Exploration Analogs at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- Ivan Tors – Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer
- William Trubridge – New Zealand freediver and record holder
U
- Devrim Cenk Ulusoy – Turkish freediver and world record holder
V
- Mark T. Vande Hei – American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Danai Varveri – Greek freediver and record holder
- Josef Velek – Czech journalist, author and environmentalist
- John Veltri – American filmmaker and underwater photographer
- John Volanthen – British volunteer cave diver who specialises in rescues
W
- Koichi Wakata – Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut
- Rex J. Walheim – United States Air Force officer, engineer and a NASA astronaut.
- Richard A. Walker represented by Wildrake diving accident – Fatal offshore diving accident in Scotland, 1979
- Shannon Walker – American scientist and NASA astronaut
- Lothar Michael Ward represented by Star Canopus diving accident – Fatal offshore diving bell accident in 1978
- Stan Waterman
- Ebenezer Watson – Nephew of Charles Spalding and died in the same accident
- Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet – British politician and industrialist
- Joachim Wendler – German aquanaut who died in a diving accident
- Death of Bradley Westell – Fatal diving accident in the North Sea in 1995
- Michele Westmorland – American underwater photographer
- Douglas H. Wheelock – American engineer and astronaut.
- Peggy Whitson – American biochemistry researcher and NASA astronaut
- Andrew Wight – Australian screenwriter and producer
- 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
- John Ernest Williamson – Pioneer underwater photographer
- Gregory R. Wiseman – American astronaut, engineer, and naval aviator
- J. Lamar Worzel – American geophysicist and underwater photographer
Y
- Kimiya Yui – Japanese pilot and JAXA astronaut
Z
- Alessia Zecchini – Italian freediver who set world and Italian records
- Aristotelis Zervoudis
- Arne Zetterström – Diver involved in experimental work with Hydrox breathing gas