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Dick Long

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"We have great diver-training programs — but we have stopped making real divers."
Founded "Diving Unlimited International" (DUI) in 1963.
Divers Alamanac Page with Awards and etc.

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Lauren has been diving worldwide since the 1960s, using her celebrity status to promote marine conservation and the sport of diving in countless interviews, articles, and celebrity appearances at dive shows.
Hutton Women Diver Hall Of Fame Page Link

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Scottish physician and physiologist famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases.
He also experimented on his son, the equally famous J. B. S. Haldane

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Link To Divers Almanac Larry Green Page
Pioneer Cave diver and cave diving instructor.
Larry Green is one of the most active cave and technical diving instructors in the industry.
From 1989 through 1991, Larry was involved in a pioneering survey project to map and explore the Eagles Nest Cave System
In 1991, Larry was one of the first cave divers to use Closed Circuit Rebreather technology in the Eagle's Nest Cave System.
In 1997 Larry was one of the orginal pilots for Bill Stone's Digital Mapper used in Wakulla Springs during the 1998 Wakulla 2 Project. (Pic)
Larry is the Vice Chairman of Florida Speleological Researchers
Training Director and a Board of Directors member of the National Association for Cave Diving
Training Director of Technical Diving International
Former Training Committe member of the National Speleological Society - Cave Diving Section

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Pic early photog underwater
Bret Clifton Gilliam is a pioneering technical diver.
Founder of TDI
In 1991, Gilliam joined Dick Rutkowski, Tom Mount and Billy Deans on the board of directors for International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD)
One time holder of the world record for deep diving on air. 1990 Bret Gilliam dived to a depth of 452 fsw on air. 1993 Bret Gilliam extended his own world record to 475 fsw.
Gilliam has served as the publisher or editor of several magazines over the years.
Gilliam Wiki

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Legends of Diving Article
Dottie Frazier was born in July, 1922 in Long Beach, CA, a female who should have been a male according to her dad.
In 1940 Dottie started teaching skin diving classes and became the Worlds first female Scuba Instructor in the United States in 1955.
Dottie taught skin and scuba diving for the YMCA in an old basement swimming pool in downtown Long Beach.
She later became the first woman hard hat diver but she felt too restricted and gave it up 2 years later.
Dottie became owner of her own dive shop called the Penguin. She was the first woman in the world to own and operate a dive shop!
Dottie then began manufacturing her own line of wetsuits as well as making suits for US Divers, Healthways, and Navy UDT teams.
Dottie is a charter member of the Long Beach Neptunes and the Women Divers Hall of Fame.