Diver

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Diver or divers can refer to:

Diving, the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
- Category:Divers
Underwater diving
- Category:Underwater divers
- Scuba diving, in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater
- Surface supplied diving, in which a diver uses an umbilical to breathe

Animals

Loons, or divers, a group of aquatic birds found in parts of North America and northern Eurasia
One of two New Zealand fish:
- New Zealand sand diver
- Long-finned sand diver

An English spelling of an Irish surname prevalent in Northern County Donegal, Ireland
Alfred Diver (1823–1876), English cricketer
Bridget Diver, watch guard in the American Civil War
Colin Diver, president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA
Danny Diver, former manager of East Stirlingshire Football CLub
Joe Diver, Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry
Stuart Diver, ski instructor, sole survivor of the 1997 Thredbo landslide
Teri Diver (1971–2001), American porn star and director
William Diver (1921–1995), founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics
Edward Divers (1837–1912), British chemist

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
Diver (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
Diver (vinyl), a 7" song album by A Wilhelm Scream, released in early 2006
divers, an old adjective meaning "many, various".
- Divers hands, an archaic phrase used to say that a project has been contributed to by many people
As an automatic translation of Dutch duiker, which can also mean the small antelope called a duiker