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The following index is provided as an overview of and topical guide to underwater divers:

Scientific divers Hans Hass and Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt

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.

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  Andrew Abercromby – Biomedical engineer


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  Joseph M. Acaba – American educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut


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  Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro – Catalan scuba diving pioneer and underwater filmmaker


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  Samir Alhafith – Australian technical diver, cave explorer and underwater filmmaker


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  Clayton Anderson – Retired NASA astronaut and member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew


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  Deborah Andollo – Cuban free diver and diving instructor


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  Michael Arbuthnot – Underwater archaeologist and film-maker


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  Ricardo Armbruster – Spanish ecologist, adventurer and entrepreneur


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  Richard R. Arnold – American educator and NASA astronaut on Space Shuttle mission STS-119


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  Serena Auñón-Chancellor – American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut

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  Roger Baldwin (diver) represented by Waage Drill II diving accident – A fatal saturation diving accident in the North Sea in 1975


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  Robert Ballard – Retired US Navy officer and a professor of oceanography known for maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks


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  Michael C. Barnette – American underwater diver, author and founder of the Association of Underwater Explorers


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  Michael Barratt (astronaut) – American aerospace medicine physician and a NASA astronaut with two flights


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  George Bass – American pioneer of underwater archaeology


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  Robert L. Behnken – United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Astronaut Office


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  Tamara Benitez – Filipina cinematographer


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  John Bennett (diver) – British technical diver and former record holder lost in commercial diving incident


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  Victor Berge – Swedish diving pioneer and author


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  Georges Beuchat – French inventor, diver and businessman


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  Pascal Bernabé – French claimant to scuba diving depth record


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  Adrian Biddle – English cinematographer


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  Jonathan Bird – American photographer, cinematographer, director and television host.


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  Leigh Bishop – Diver known for shipwreck exploration and photography


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  Mensun Bound – British marine archaeologist


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  Henri Bource – Dutch scuba diver, underwater filmmaker, musician and shark attack survivor


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  Jim Bowden (diver) – Record breaking technical and cave diver


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  Randolph Bresnik – United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut on three expeditions


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  Allan Bridge – American conceptual artist


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  David Bright (diver) – Wreck diver


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  Timothy J. Broderick – Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati


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  Justin Brown (aquanaut) – American professional aquanaut and habitat technician

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  James F. Cahill – American scuba diving pioneer


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  Sara Campbell – British free diver and former world record holder


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  Berry L. Cannon – American aquanaut who died in a diving incident.


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  Scott Carpenter – American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut


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  Scott Cassell – American underwater film maker.


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  Gregory Chamitoff – Canadian born engineer and NASA astronaut


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  Steve Chappell – American aerospace engineer


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  John Chatterton – American wreck diver, co-host for History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives series


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  Eric Cheng – Taiwanese American entrepreneur and professional photographer


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  Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver


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  Goran Čolak – Croatian free-diver and world record holder


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  Catherine Coleman – American chemist and former United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut


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  Neville Coleman – Australian naturalist, underwater photographer, writer, publisher and educator


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  Robin Cook (American novelist) – American physician and novelist


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  Craig B. Cooper – American aquanaut


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  Carlos Coste – Venezuelan freediver and world record holder


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  Cotton Coulson – Photographer known for his work for National Geographic magazine


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  Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker


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  Jacques Cousteau – French inventor of open circuit scuba, pioneer diver, author, film-maker and marine researcher


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  Jean-Michel Cousteau – French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer


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  Philippe Cousteau – French diver and cinematographer


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  Cláudio Coutinho – Brazilian football manager and coach


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  Lionel Crabb – Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver


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  John D. Craig – American businessman, writer, soldier, and diver


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  Timothy Creamer – NASA flight director, retired astronaut and a colonel in the United States Army


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  Robert Croft – American freediver and US Navy diving instructor


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  Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman


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  Mandy-Rae Cruickshank – Canadian world champion freediver and record holder

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  Yasemin Dalkılıç – Turkish freediver and record holder


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  E. Yale Dawson – American botanist and seaweed taxonomist


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  John Day (carpenter) – First recorded death in a diving chamber


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  Charles Anthony Deane – Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet


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  Billy Deans (diver) – American pioneering wreck and technical diver


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  Bernard Delemotte – French diver and photographer


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  James P. Delgado – American maritime archaeologist, explorer and author


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  François de Roubaix – French film score composer


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  Auguste Denayrouze – French inventor of a demand air supply regulator for underwater diving


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  Philippe Diolé – French author and undersea explorer


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  Jonathan Dory – Human Systems Integration Lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center


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  David Doubilet – Underwater photographer and author


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  Deon Dreyer – South African scuba diver who died in Bushman's Hole


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  Milan Dufek – Czech singer, composer, guitarist and flautist


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  Frédéric Dumas – French pioneer of scuba diving

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  Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist, explorer, and author


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  Mark Ellyatt – British technical diver and previous depth record holder


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  Ted Eldred – Australian inventor of the single hose diving regulator


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  Jeanette J. Epps – American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut


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  Şahika Ercümen – Turkish dietician and world record holding freediver


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  Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker

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  Albert Falco – French scuba diver, chief diver and captain of the Calypso


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  Maurice Fargues – French navy diver. First scuba fatality using aqualung for a depth record attempt


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  Martyn Farr – British cave diver


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  Emma Farrell – British freediving instructor and author


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  Maurice Fernez – French inventor and pioneer in underwater breathing apparatus, respirators and gas masks


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  Francisco Ferreras – Cuban freediver also known as "Pipin"


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  Andrew J. Feustel – American geophysicist and NASA astronaut


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  Michael Fincke – United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut


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  John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author


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  George R. Fischer – American underwater archaeologist


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  Dermot FitzGerald – Irish businessman


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  Rodney Fox – Australian diver, film maker and conservationist


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  Anders Franzén – Swedish marine technician and amateur naval archaeologist


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  Ian Edward Fraser – British military diver. Recipient of the Victoria Cross


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  Ric Frazier – American photographer


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  Stephen Frink – Underwater photographer and publisher


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  Pierre Frolla – Monegasque free-diver and world record holder


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  Honor Frost – Pioneer in underwater archaeology


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  Satoshi Furukawa – Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut

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  Ahmed Gabr – Egyptian diver and scuba depth record holder


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  Émile Gagnan – French engineer and co-inventor of the open circuit demand scuba regulator


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  Ronald J. Garan Jr. – American astronaut


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  Guy Garman – Scuba diver who died in a depth record attempt


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  Gary Gentile – American author and pioneering technical diver


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  Michael L. Gernhardt – NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory


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  Christopher E. Gerty – American aerospace engineer who worked on NASA's Constellation Program


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  David Gibbins – Underwater archaeologist and novelist


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  Bret Gilliam – Pioneering technical diver and author.


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  Peter Gimbel – American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist


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  Nuno Gomes – South African diver and holder of scuba depth record


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  Oscar Gugen – A founder of the British Sub-Aqua Club


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  Victor F. Guiel Jr. – Saturation diver killed in the Wldrake diving acident

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  Chris Hadfield – retired Canadian astronaut


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  Edmond Halley – English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist


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  Monty Halls – British TV broadcaster, diver and naturalist


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  Bob Halstead – Underwater photographer, author, journalist and commentator on the recreational diving industry.


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  Jeremy Hansen – Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency


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  Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer


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  Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker


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  José M. Hernández – American engineer and former NASA astronaut


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  John Herrington – Retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut


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  Paul Hill (flight director) – Former Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center


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  Gene Hobbs – American technical diver and co-founder of the Rubicon Foundation


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  Craig M. Hoffman – Diver killed in the Venture One diving accident


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  Peter Henry Michael Holmes – Saturation diver killed in the Waage Drill II diving accident


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  Akihiko Hoshide – Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut


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  Mark Hulsbeck – American professional aquanaut. Oceanographic Operations Field Manager and research diver for the Aquarius Reef Base


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  Emma Hwang – Scientist with Wyle Laboratories and aquanaut on NEEMO 5

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  Steve Irwin – Australian zookeeper, conservationist and television personality

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  Jarrod Jablonski – Pioneer American cave diver, author and previous cave diving record holder


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  Trevor Jackson (diver) – Australian technical diver and author


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  Graham Jessop – British commercial diver and marine archaeologist


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  Keith Jessop – British salvage diver and treasure hunter


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  Jim Jones (American football, born 1935) – American football defensive back


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  Kevin Juergensen – Filmmaker, diver, and CEO of Juergensen Marine

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  Henry Kaiser (musician) – American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver


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  Norishige Kanai – Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut


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  Les Kaufman – American evolutionary ecologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems


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  Scott Kelly (astronaut) – American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy Captain


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  Henry Way Kendall – American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics


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  Sydney Knowles – British naval frogman during and after WWII


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  Karen Kohanowich – American aquanaut and ex US Navy diver


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  Richie Kohler – American technical diver and shipwreck historian


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  Timothy Kopra – Engineer, Colonel in the United States Army, and former commander of the International Space Station


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  Artur Kozłowski (speleologist) – Polish cave diver


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  Elisabeth Kristoffersen – Norwegian freediver and president of AIDA Norway


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  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


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  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


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  Loïc Leferme – French freediving record breaker


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  Yves Le Prieur – French naval officer and inventor of a free-flow scuba system


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  John Lethbridge – English wool merchant who invented a diving machine in 1715


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  Steve Lewis (diver) – Technical scuba diver and author


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  Jon Lindbergh – American aquanaut, commercial diver and pioneer cave diver


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  Edwin Clayton Link represented by Johnson Sea Link accident – Manned submersible incident in which two divers died


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  Michael López-Alegría – Spanish-American astronaut

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  K. Megan McArthur – American oceanographer and NASA astronaut


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  Kirsty MacColl – English singer and songwriter


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  Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut


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  Craig McKinley (physician) – Canadian physician and aquanaut


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  Alain Mafart – French military officer convicted for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior


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  Sandra Magnus – American engineer and former NASA astronaut


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  William Hogarth Main – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist


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  Enzo Maiorca – Italian free diver who held several world records


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  Luis Marden – American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist


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  Thomas Marshburn – American physician and NASA astronaut


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  Robert F. Marx – Pioneer American scuba diver known for work with shipwrecks and treasure hunting


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  John Mattera – American wreck diver and author


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  Jacques Mayol – French freediving world record holder


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  Charles T. Meide – American underwater archaeologist


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  Simone Melchior – First woman scuba diver and aquanaut


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  Audrey Mestre – French world record-setting freediver


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  Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger – Former American astronaut


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  Nicholas Mevoli – American freediver who died while attempting to set a record


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  Karol Meyer – Brazilian free-diver world record holder and professional cyclist for Avai Cycle Team


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  Stéphane Mifsud – French free diver and five time world champion in static apnea


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  Agnes Milowka – Australian cave diver


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  Simon Mitchell – New Zealand physician and author on diving medicine


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  Andreas Mogensen – Danish engineer and ESA astronaut


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  Alexey Molchanov – Russian freediver and world record holder


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  Natalia Molchanova – Russian multiple world record holding freediver


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  Noel Monkman – New Zealand born Australian filmmaker specialising in underwater photography


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  Tom Mount – Pioneering technical and cave diver


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  Dave Mullins – New Zealand freediver and world record-holder


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  Patrick Musimu – Belgian freediver

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  Bill Nagle – American wreck diving pioneer


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  Guillaume Néry – French freediver


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  Mark M. Newell – British/American underwater and terrestrial archaeologist and anthropologist


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  Herbert Nitsch – Austrian freediver and world record holder


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  Soichi Noguchi – Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut


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  Phil Nuytten – Canadian deep-ocean explorer, scientist, and inventor of the Newtsuit


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  Karen Nyberg – American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut

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  John Peter Oleson – Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology


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  John D. Olivas – American engineer and a former NASA astronaut


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  Takuya Onishi – Japanese engineer, commercial pilot and JAXA astronaut

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  Steve Parish – British born Australian photographer and publisher


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  Luca Parmitano – Italian engineer, pilot and ESA astronaut


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  Zale Parry – American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress


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  Nicholas Patrick – British-American engineer and former NASA astronaut


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  Tim Peake – British Army Air Corps officer and European Space Agency astronaut


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  Umberto Pelizzari – Italian freediver


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  Pierre Petit – Early French photographer. First to attempt underwater photography


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  Joseph Salim Peress – Pioneering British diving engineer, inventor of some of the first truly usable atmospheric diving suits


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  Thomas Pesquet – French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut


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  Annelie Pompe – Swedish freediver and mountaineer


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  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


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  Garrett Reisman – American engineer and former NASA astronaut


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  Leni Riefenstahl – German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress and dancer


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  Michal Risian – Czech and Slovak freediving champion


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  Benoît Rouquayrol – French inventor of an early diving demand regulator


• Chris and Chrissy Rouse, represented by The Last Dive – Non-fiction book about a double wreck diving fatality


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  Kathleen Rubins – American microbiologist and NASA astronaut


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  Margaret Rule – British archaeologist who led the Mary Rose project


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  Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving


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  Tara Ruttley – Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center

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  David Saint-Jacques – Canadian engineer, astrophysicist, physician and CSA astronaut


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  Dee Scarr – Environmentalist, marine naturalist, and scuba diver


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  Josef Schmid (flight surgeon) – NASA flight surgeon and Major General in the United States Air Force Reserves


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  Gunter Schöbel – German archaeologist and director of the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen


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  Monika Schultz – American engineer


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  Stephanie Schwabe – German geomicrobiologist, diver and underwater researcher


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  Peter Scoones – Underwater cameraman


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  Willard Franklyn Searle – US Navy ocean engineer and developer of diving and salvage equipment and systems


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  Claudia Serpieri – Italian technical diver and depth record holder


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  Stig Severinsen – Danish freediver, record holder and author


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  David Shaw – Australian technical diver and former record holder killed in a diving incident


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  Robert Sheats – American Master Diver retired from the United States Navy


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  Augustus Siebe – German-born British engineer mostly known for his contributions to diving equipment


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  Tom Sietas – German freediver and record holder


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  Brian Skerry – American photojournalist


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  Wesley C. Skiles – American cave diver and underwater cinematographer


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  Pier Skipness represented by Drill Master diving accident – Fatal diving bell accident off Norway in 1974


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  Dewey Smith – American aquanaut. Died in diving accident.


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  Robert John Smyth represented by Drill Master diving accident – Fatal diving bell accident off Norway in 1974


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  Aharon Solomons – Israeli-British freediver and record holder


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  Charles Spalding – Scottish confectioner and amateur diving bell designer


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  E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist


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  Steve Squyres – Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University


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  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut


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  Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut


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  Martin Štěpánek – Czech freediver and record-holder


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  Hervé Stevenin – European aquanaut at the European Astronaut Centre


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  Rob Stewart (filmmaker) – Canadian photographer, filmmaker and conservationist


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  Walter Steyn – Australian competitive freediver, freediving judge and freediving instructor


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  Bill Stone – American engineer, caver and explorer


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  Nicole Stott – American engineer and NASA astronaut


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  Albert D. Stover represented by Johnson Sea Link accident – Manned submersible incident in which two divers died


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  Tanya Streeter – British-Caymanian-American freediver


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  Esbjörn Svensson – Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio

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  Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer


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  Daniel M. Tani – American engineer and NASA astronaut


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  James Talacek – American professional aquanaut


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  Jason deCaires Taylor – British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park


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  Ron and Valerie Taylor – Australian divers and shark cinematographers


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  Teseo Tesei – Italian naval officer and pioneering military diver


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  Robert Thirsk – Canadian engineer and physician, and former CSA astronaut


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  Peter Throckmorton – American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist


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  Albert Tillman – American educator and underwater diver.


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  Bill Todd – Project Manager for Exploration Analogs at NASA's Johnson Space Center


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  William Trubridge – New Zealand freediver and record holder

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  Devrim Cenk Ulusoy – Turkish freediver and world record holder

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  Mark T. Vande Hei – American engineer and NASA astronaut


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  Danai Varveri – Greek freediver and record holder


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  Josef Velek – Czech journalist, author and environmentalist


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  John Veltri – American filmmaker and underwater photographer

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  Koichi Wakata – Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut


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  Rex J. Walheim – United States Air Force officer, engineer and a NASA astronaut.


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  Richard A. Walker represented by Wildrake diving accident – Fatal offshore diving accident in Scotland, 1979


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  Shannon Walker – American scientist and NASA astronaut


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  Lothar Michael Ward represented by Star Canopus diving accident – Fatal offshore diving bell accident in 1978


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  Stan Waterman – Cinematographer and underwater film producer


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  Ebenezer Watson – Nephew of Charles Spalding and died in the same accident


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  Joachim Wendler – German aquanaut who died in a diving accident


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  Death of Bradley Westell – Fatal diving accident in the North Sea in 1995


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  Douglas H. Wheelock – American engineer and astronaut.


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  Peggy Whitson – American biochemistry researcher and NASA astronaut


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  Andrew Wight – Australian screenwriter and producer


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  Dafydd Williams – Canadian physician, public speaker and retired CSA astronaut


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  Jeffrey Williams (astronaut) – Retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut


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  Sunita Williams – The indo-American astronaut and United States Navy officer


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  Gregory R. Wiseman – American astronaut, engineer, and naval aviator


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  J. Lamar Worzel – American geophysicist and underwater photographer

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  Kimiya Yui – Japanese pilot and JAXA astronaut

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  Arne Zetterström – Diver involved in experimental work with Hydrox breathing gas

See also[edit]

• Glossary of underwater diving terminology