Diver Explained

Diver or divers may refer to:

• Diving (sport), the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
• Practitioner of underwater diving, including:
  • scuba diving,
  • freediving,
  • surface-supplied diving,
  • saturation diving, and
  • atmospheric suit diving

People

• Diver (surname)
• Edward Divers (1837–1912), British chemist
• "Diver", nickname of Tom Derrick (1914–1945), Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross

Military

• 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
• AUM-N-4 Diver, a proposed U.S. Navy torpedo-carrying missile of the late 1940s.
• Diver (United States Navy)

Arts and entertainment

• Diver (EP), a 2006 EP by A Wilhelm Scream
• "Diver" (Nico Touches the Walls song), a 2011 song by Nico Touches the Walls
• "Diver" (Kana-Boon song), a 2015 song by Kana-Boon
• Divers (album), a 2015 album by Joanna Newsom
• The Diver, a 2000 sculpture by John Kaufman
• The Diver (play), a play by Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan

Films

• The Diver (1911 film), a 1911 short film directed by Sidney Olcott
• The Diver (2001 film), a 2000 short film directed by PV Lehtinen

Other uses

• Diver (painting), a 1962 painting by Jasper Johns
• Loons, called divers in Great Britain and Ireland, a group of aquatic birds
• "The Diver", nickname for a NBR 224 Class locomotive
• Divers ("diverse"), an unrelated but similar sounding word, is a legal gender option for intersex people in Germany. See Legal recognition of non-binary gender and Legal recognition of intersex people.