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This list of oceanographers is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the Aqua-Lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today. According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure (1953), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self-contained underwater ...
Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998.
Walter Heinrich Munk (October 19, 1917 – February 8, 2019) [3] was an American physical oceanographer. [3] [7] He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data.
Evan Forde, a Miami native, was the first Black oceanographer to explore the Atlantic’s deep canyons in a two-man submersible in 1979. He made history as a Black oceanographer, but he faced ...
[5]: 19–20 While he was a high school student, his father connected him with oceanographers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and he participated in several short research expeditions. [5]: 21–24 Ballard enrolled at University of California, Santa Barbara, and joined the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. [5]: 27–30
The list may include archaeologists, wreck divers, treasure hunters, biologists, marine geologists, geophysicists, ocean engineers, oceanographers, crew of exploration submersibles, cave divers and surveyors of the underwater topography, but these categories are not exclusive.
Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984), American marine biologist and biological oceanographer; Benjamin Kahn (born 1955), Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist; Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist; Otto Kinne (1923-2015), German marine biologist; Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010)