# Diver

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**Diver** or **divers** may refer to practitioners of:

- [Diving (sport)](/source/Diving_(sport)), the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
- [Underwater diving](/source/Underwater_diving), including: - [scuba diving](/source/Scuba_diving) - [freediving](/source/Freediving) - [surface-supplied diving](/source/Surface-supplied_diving) - [saturation diving](/source/Saturation_diving)

## People

- [Diver (surname)](/source/Diver_(surname))
- [Edward Divers](/source/Edward_Divers) (1837–1912), British chemist
- "Diver", nickname of [Tom Derrick](/source/Tom_Derrick) (1914–1945), Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross

## Military

- [V-1 flying bomb](/source/V-1_flying_bomb), code named "diver" by the British World War II armed forces - [Operation Diver](/source/Operation_Diver), the British countermeasures against the German V-1 flying bomb campaign
- [AUM-N-4 Diver](/source/AUM-N-4_Diver), a proposed U.S. Navy torpedo-carrying missile of the late 1940s.
- [Diver (United States Navy)](/source/Diver_(United_States_Navy))

## Arts and entertainment

- [*Diver* (EP)](/source/Diver_(EP)), a 2006 EP by A Wilhelm Scream
- ["Diver" (Nico Touches the Walls song)](/source/Diver_(Nico_Touches_the_Walls_song)), a 2011 song by Nico Touches the Walls
- ["Diver" (Kana-Boon song)](/source/Diver_(Kana-Boon_song)), a 2015 song by Kana-Boon
- [*Divers* (album)](/source/Divers_(album)), a 2015 album by Joanna Newsom
- *[The Diver](/source/The_Diver)*, a 2000 sculpture by John Kaufman
- [*The Diver* (play)](/source/The_Diver_(play)), a play by Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan
- *[Helldivers](/source/Helldivers)* A 2015 game developed by [Arrowhead Game Studios](/source/Arrowhead_Game_Studios).
- *[Helldivers 2](/source/Helldivers_2)* A 2024 sequel to *[Helldivers](/source/Helldivers)*.

### Films

- [*The Diver* (1911 film)](/source/The_Diver_(1911_film)), a 1911 short film directed by Sidney Olcott
- [*The Diver* (2001 film)](/source/The_Diver_(2001_film)), a 2000 short film directed by PV Lehtinen

## Other uses

- [*Diver* (painting)](/source/Diver_(painting)), a 1962 painting by Jasper Johns
- [Loons](/source/Loon), called divers in Great Britain and Ireland, a group of aquatic birds
- "The Diver", nickname for a [NBR 224 Class](/source/NBR_224_Class) locomotive
- Divers ("diverse"), an unrelated but similar sounding word, is a [legal gender](/source/Legal_gender) option for [intersex](/source/Intersex) people in Germany. See [Legal recognition of non-binary gender](/source/Legal_recognition_of_non-binary_gender) and [Legal recognition of intersex people](/source/Legal_recognition_of_intersex_people).

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