Diver or divers may refer to:
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Diving (sport)
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a Diving platform, platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognised sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstruct ...
, 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 (disambiguation), diving, an ambiguous term with several possible meani ...
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scuba diving
Scuba diving is a Diving mode, mode of underwater diving whereby divers use Scuba set, breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance. The word ''scub ...
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freediving
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode 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 a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. ...
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saturation diving
Saturation diving is an ambient pressure diving technique which allows a diver to remain at working depth for extended periods during which the body tissues become solubility, saturated with metabolically inert gas from the breathing gas mixture ...
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atmospheric suit diving
People
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Diver (surname)
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Edward Divers
Edward Divers 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 significantly contribute ...
(1837–1912), British chemist
*"Diver", nickname of
Tom Derrick (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 ( "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry () name was Fieseler Fi 103 and its suggestive name was (hellhound). It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug a ...
, code named "diver" by the British World War II armed forces
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Operation Diver, the British countermeasures against the German V-1 flying bomb campaign
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AUM-N-4 Diver, 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 a ...
'', 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'' (2001 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 English, 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 (biolog ...
s, called divers in Great Britain and Ireland, a group of aquatic birds
*"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 Gre ...
locomotive
*Divers ("diverse"), an unrelated but similar sounding word, 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. Legal gender identity is fundament ...
option for
intersex
Intersex people are those 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 binar ...
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
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
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See also
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