Deep-Sea Submarine Explorers
Deep-sea Submarine Explorers is a structured people dataset with 16 entries. Its fields include Name, Country, Lifespan. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 16 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Name, Country, Lifespan, Famous Dive, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Lifespan span
- 1877 to 1966
- Across 16 preview rows
- Country groups
- 6 distinct values
- Across 16 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Country, and Lifespan across people entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 16 downloadable records
Name↕ | Country↕ | Lifespan↕ | Famous Dive↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jacques Cousteau | France | 1910-1997 | Calypso expeditions worldwide | Co-invented the Aqua-Lung, popularized ocean exploration via The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau |
Jacques Piccard | Switzerland | 1922-2008 | Challenger Deep 1960 | With Don Walsh, first humans to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench in bathyscaphe Trieste |
Don Walsh | United States | 1931-2023 | Challenger Deep 1960 | US Navy lieutenant who piloted the Trieste to 10,916 meters with Piccard |
James Cameron | Canada | 1954-present | Challenger Deep 2012 | Director who made first solo dive to the Mariana Trench in the Deepsea Challenger submersible |
Sylvia Earle | United States | 1935-present | Jim Suit walk 1979 | Record solo dive of 381 meters in a Jim Suit, Her Deepness, founder of Mission Blue |
Robert Ballard | United States | 1942-present | Titanic wreck 1985 | Discovered the wrecks of RMS Titanic, Bismarck and USS Yorktown using Argo and Alvin |
Auguste Piccard | Switzerland | 1884-1962 | Bathyscaphe Trieste 1953 | Physicist who designed the bathyscaphe, reached 3,150 meters, father of Jacques |
William Beebe | United States | 1877-1962 | Bathysphere dive 1934 | First deep-sea naturalist, descended 923 meters in the Bathysphere off Bermuda with Otis Barton |
Otis Barton | United States | 1899-1992 | Benthoscope 1949 | Engineer who built the Bathysphere with Beebe, set 1,370-meter solo depth record in Benthoscope |
Victor Vescovo | United States | 1966-present | Five Deeps 2019 | First person to dive the deepest point of all five oceans in the Limiting Factor submersible |
Kathy Sullivan | United States | 1951-present | Challenger Deep 2020 | First woman to reach the Challenger Deep and first American woman to walk in space |
Edith Widder | United States | 1951-present | Giant squid filming 2012 | Bioluminescence expert, first to film a live giant squid in its natural habitat |
Philippe Cousteau | France | 1940-1979 | Antarctic expeditions 1970s | Filmmaker son of Jacques, pioneered underwater cinematography before fatal seaplane crash |
Graham Hawkes | United Kingdom | 1947-present | Deep Flight testing | Engineer behind Deep Rover and Deep Flight winged submersibles used by Branson and Earle |
Anatoly Sagalevich | Russia | 1938-present | North Pole seabed 2007 | Piloted Mir submersibles to the Titanic and planted a Russian flag on the Arctic Ocean floor |
Bertrand Piccard | Switzerland | 1958-present | Family dynasty | Third-generation Piccard explorer, flew Solar Impulse around the world after deep-diving heritage |
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