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
*Practitioner of
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,
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freediving,
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surface-supplied diving,
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saturation diving, and
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atmospheric suit diving
People
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Diver (surname)
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Edward Divers (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'', 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 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.
See also
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