SOMERS, Lee, Ph.D.
USA (1938-2015)
Last updated: August 9, 2017 at 19:07 pm
Pioneer in diving safety; Diving Safety Officer at the University of Michigan; instructor; lecturer; author of the Research Diver’s Manual; contributor to the NOAA Diving Manual; served as a Michigan Sea Grant specialist in diver education, diving technology and aquatic accident management; made advances in multi-level dive tables; co-founder and first president of the American Academy of Underwater Scientists; founding member of PADI; founding director and Director Emeritus of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society; respectfully known as the Michigan Mafia during the 1970s along with his team; began diving in 1954.
Honours and Awards:
DAN/ROLEX Diver of the Year (1997)
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GALLANT, Jeffrey J.
VESCOVO, Victor
WALLINGFORD, Peter
LEANEY, Leslie
COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves
LE PRIEUR, Yves Paul Gaston
EVANS, Bob
WOLBERT, Linden
PAINLEVÉ, Jean
VANN, Richard D., Ph.D.
NITSCH, Herbert
FERRERAS, Francisco ‘Pipin’
Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.