Diver

Diver or divers can refer to:

• Diving, the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
  • Category:Divers
• Underwater diving
  • Category:Underwater divers
  • Scuba diving, in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater
  • Surface supplied diving, in which a diver uses an umbilical to breathe

Animals

• Loons, or divers, a group of aquatic birds found in parts of North America and northern Eurasia
• One of two New Zealand fish:
  • New Zealand sand diver
  • Long-finned sand diver

People

• An English spelling of an Irish surname prevalent in Northern County Donegal, Ireland
• Alfred Diver (1823–1876), English cricketer
• Bridget Diver, watch guard in the American Civil War
• Colin Diver, president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA
• Danny Diver, former manager of East Stirlingshire Football CLub
• Joe Diver, Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry
• Stuart Diver, ski instructor, sole survivor of the 1997 Thredbo landslide
• Teri Diver (1971–2001), American porn star and director
• William Diver (1921–1995), founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics
• Edward Divers (1837–1912), British chemist

Other uses

• V-1 flying bomb, code named "diver" by the British World War II armed forces
  • Operation Diver, the British countermeasures against the German V-1 flying bomb campaign
• Diver (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
• Diver (vinyl), a 7" song album by A Wilhelm Scream, released in early 2006
• divers, an old adjective meaning "many, various".
  • Divers hands, an archaic phrase used to say that a project has been contributed to by many people
• As an automatic translation of Dutch duiker, which can also mean the small antelope called a duiker

See also

• All pages with titles containing "diver"