List of underwater divers

This is a list of underwater divers whose exploits have made them notable.

Pioneers of diving

Victor Berge (1891–1974) helmet diving
Émile Gagnan (1900–1979) inventor of demand regulator
Philippe Tailliez (1905–2002) skin & scuba diving
Philippe Diole (1908–1977) undersea exploration
Teseo Tesei (1909–1941) inventor of human torpedo
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) co-inventor AquaLung
Frédéric Dumas (1913–1991) spearfishing, wreck diving
Arne Zetterström (1917–1945) mixed gas diving
Hans Hass (1919-2013) underwater photography
Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro (1924–) inventor of scuba diving device & deep diving
James F. Cahill (1926–2008) scuba diving
Robert Sténuit (1933-) first Aquanaut
Gary Gentile (1946-) wreck diving
E. Lee Spence (1947-) underwater archaeology
Sheck Exley (1949–1994) cave diving
Bret Gilliam (1951-) technical diving
Bill Nagle (1952–1993) wreck diving
Wesley C. Skiles (1958–2010) cave diving
Jarrod Jablonski (1969-) technical diving
Dick Rutkowski diving medicine, diver training
Tom Mount technical diving

Record holders for depth or cave penetration

(Scuba and surface supplied)

Notable for other reasons

Craig B. Cooper (born 1949?) Aquanaut
James Talacek Aquanaut
Nate Bender Aquanaut
Berry L. Cannon (1935–1969) Aquanaut
Dominic Landucci Aquanaut
Dewey Smith (1972–2009) Aquanaut
Karen Kohanowich Aquanaut
Lionel Crabb
Michael C. Barnette
Willard Franklyn Searle (1924–2009)
Agnes Milowka (1981–2011)
Bob Halstead (born 1944)
David Shaw (1954–2005)
Deon Dreyer (1974–1994)
Joachim Wendler (died 1975)
Keith Jessop (1933–2010)
Leigh Bishop (born 1968)
Stephanie Schwabe (born 1957)
Steve Lewis (diver)
Ted Eldred (1920–2005)
Trevor Jackson (diver) (born 1965)
Billy Deans (diver)
Fabien Cousteau (born 1967)
Graham Jessop (born 1957)
John Chatterton (born 1951)
Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 1938)
Richie Kohler
Oscar Gugen (born 1910)
Philippe Cousteau (1940–1979)
Mark Hulsbeck (born 1956) Aquanaut

Free-divers

Underwater divers

Pioneers of diving	Aquanaut Jacques Cousteau Hans Hass Arne Zetterström

Underwater scientists and archaeologists	Michael Arbuthnot Robert Ballard George Bass Mensun Bound Eugenie Clark James P. Delgado Sylvia Earle John Christopher Fine George R. Fischer Anders Franzén Honor Frost David Gibbins Robert F. Marx Charles T. Meide Mark M. Newell John Peter Oleson Margaret Rule Gunter Schöbel E. Lee Spence Robert Sténuit Peter Throckmorton

Record holders	Sheck Exley Nuno Gomes Jacques Mayol Tanya Streeter

Underwater filmmakers	Samir Alhafith Andrew Wight

Underwater photographers	Tamara Benitez Georges Beuchat Adrian Biddle Jonathan Bird Eric Cheng Neville Coleman Jacques Cousteau John D. Craig Ben Cropp Bernard Delemotte David Doubilet John Christopher Fine Dermot FitzGerald Rodney Fox Ric Frazier Stephen Frink Peter Gimbel Monty Halls Hans Hass Henry Way Kendall Daniel Knop Rudie Kuiter Joseph B. MacInnis Luis Marden Agnes Milowka Noel Monkman Steve Parish Zale Parry Pierre Petit Leni Riefenstahl Peter Scoones Brian Skerry Wesley C. Skiles E. Lee Spence Philippe Tailliez Ron & Valerie Taylor Albert Tillman John Veltri Stan Waterman Jiang Wenhao J. Lamar Worzel

Underwater explorers	Sheck Exley Martyn Farr Jill Heinerth William Hogarth Main Bill Stone

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