Diver or divers may refer to:
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Diving (sport)
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-comp ...
, the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
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underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment. It is also often referred to as diving, an ambiguous term with several possible meanings, depending on context ...
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scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface air supply. The name "scuba", an acronym for "Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus", was coined by Chris ...
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freediving
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.
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surface-supplied diving
Surface-supplied diving is diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas using a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. This is different from scub ...
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saturation diving
Saturation diving is diving for periods long enough to bring all tissues into equilibrium with the partial pressures of the inert components of the breathing gas used. It is a diving mode that reduces the number of decompressions divers working ...
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atmospheric suit diving
People
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Diver (surname)
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Edward Divers
Edward Divers Royal Society, FRS (27 November 1837 – 8 April 1912) was a British experimental chemist who rose to prominence despite being visually impaired from young age. Between 1873 and 1899, Divers lived and worked in Japan and significan ...
(1837–1912), British chemist
*"Diver", nickname of
Tom Derrick
Thomas Currie "Diver" Derrick, (20 March 1914 – 24 May 1945) was an Australian soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" awarded to members of the British and Commonwea ...
(1914–1945), Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross
Military
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V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb (german: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany), Reich Aviation Ministry () designation was Fi 103. It was also known to the Allies as the buz ...
, code named "diver" by the British World War II armed forces
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Operation Diver
Operation Diver was the British codename for countermeasures against the V-1 flying bomb campaign launched by the German in 1944 against London and other parts of Britain. Diver was the codename for the V-1, against which the defence consisted of ...
, the British countermeasures against the German V-1 flying bomb campaign
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AUM-N-4 Diver
The AUM-N-4 Diver, also known as Kingfisher D and AUM-4, was a proposed anti-ship and anti-submarine missile, developed for use by the United States Navy in the late 1940s. It was intended to carry a rocket-propelled torpedo that used a single roc ...
, a proposed U.S. Navy torpedo-carrying missile of the late 1940s.
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Diver (United States Navy)
Arts and entertainment
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''Diver'' (EP), a 2006 EP by A Wilhelm Scream
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"Diver" (Nico Touches the Walls song), a 2011 song by Nico Touches the Walls
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"Diver" (Kana-Boon song), a 2015 song by Kana-Boon
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''Divers'' (album), a 2015 album by Joanna Newsom
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The Diver
''The Diver'' (full name:''The Diver:Regeneration'') is a sculpture by John Kaufman located in the River Thames at Rainham, east London. ''The Diver'' is made of galvanised steel bands on a steel frame and is tall and approximately wide an ...
'', a 2000 sculpture by John Kaufman
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''The Diver'' (play), a play by Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan
Films
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''The Diver'' (1911 film), a 1911 short film directed by Sidney Olcott
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''The Diver'' (2000 film), a 2000 short film directed by PV Lehtinen
Other uses
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''Diver'' (painting), a 1962 painting by Jasper Johns
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Loon
Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia. All living species of loons are members of the genus ''Gavia'', family Gaviidae and order Gavi ...
s, called divers in Great Britain and Ireland, a group of aquatic birds
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Diver, Ontario
Diver is a railway point and unincorporated place in the southwest corner of geographic La Salle Township in the Unorganized North Part of Nipissing District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It was created during the construction of the Ontario ...
*"The Diver", nickname for a
NBR 224 Class
The NBR 224 and 420 Classes consisted of six steam locomotives of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement built by the North British Railway (NBR) in 1871 and 1873. 224 had three claims to fame: it was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 engine to run in Great ...
locomotive
*Divers is a
legal gender
Legal gender, or legal sex, is a sex or gender that is recognized under the law. Biological sex, sex reassignment and gender identity are used to determine legal gender. The details vary by jurisdiction.
History
In European societies, Roman ...
option for
intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...
people in Germany. See
Legal recognition of non-binary gender
Multiple countries legally recognize non-binary or third gender classifications. These classifications are typically based on a person's gender identity. In some countries, such classifications may only be available to intersex people, born with ...
and
Legal recognition of intersex people
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that, according to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".
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See also
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