List of undersea explorers

This is a list of amateur and professional explorers of the oceans, including
Archaeologists, Treasure hunters, Biologists, Marine Geologists, Geophysicists,
Ocean Engineers, Oceanographers, Submersible Designers, Pilots of Submersibles,
Cave Divers, Cavers, and Speleologists, and First Generation Diving Safety Officers.
Biologists.
Source: List of biologists.
First generation diving safety officers.
A diving safety officer (DSO) is a person (typically a University Official) appointed by an institution's responsible administrative officer or designee. He or she must be trained as a scientific diver, be a full member of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences and be an active underwater instructor from an internationally recognized certifying agency. He or she is responsible, for the conduct of the scientific diving program of the institution, including the conduct of training and certification, approval of dive plans, maintenance of diving records, and ensuring compliance with all relevant
regulations.
This organizational structure goes back to the model developed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the early 1950s. The model spread from there to the other campuses of the University of California, then to other California institutions and then nationwide. It served as the model accepted by the American Academy of Underwater Sciences and OSHA.
Those individuals who were part of the first generation of Diving Officers often had the opportunity to participate in many different undersea exploration programs and made singular contributions to those programs as well as the world of diving and submersibles.