Annual event recognizing recreational scuba industry contributors
The International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame (ISDHF ) is an annual event that recognizes those who have contributed to the success and growth of recreational scuba diving in dive travel, entertainment, art, equipment design and development, education, exploration and adventure. It was founded in 2000 by the Cayman Islands Ministry of Tourism. Currently, it exists virtually with plans for a physical facility to be built at a future time.[1] [2]
Hall of Fame inductees
This is a list of the inductees who are honored in the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame.[3]
Early pioneers
2000
Lloyd Bridges – American actor (1913–1998)
Jacques Cousteau – French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author
Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman
E. R. Cross
Gustav Dalla Valle
Jefferson Davis
Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist and lecturer
Bernard Eaton
Emile Gagnon
Al Giddings
Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
Lotte Hass – Pioneering diver and underwater photographer
Jack Lavanchy
Jack Mckenny
Bob Soto
Ron Taylor – Australian diver and shark cinematographer
Valerie Taylor – Australian underwater photographer
Albert Tillman – American educator and underwater diver
Stan Waterman – American cinematographer and underwater film producer (1923–2023)[4]
2002
John Cronin
David Doubilet – Underwater photographer and author
Bob Hollis
Zale Parry – American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress
Ivan Tors – Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer
Paul Tzimoulis[5]
2003
2004
Dick Anderson
Mike Ball
Jerry Greenberg
Kendall McDonald
Spencer Slate
Akira Tateishi
2005
Dewey Bergman
Ernest Brooks
Andreas Rechnitzer – American oceanographer.and scuba diving pioneer
Don Stewart – American inventor, Bonairean activist, scuba diver and founder of Bonaire Marine Park
2007
Cornell Burke (Honouree)
Neville Coleman – Australian naturalist, underwater photographer, writer, publisher and educator[6]
Neville Darvin Ebanks (Honouree)
Ralph Erickson[7]
Rodney Fox – Australian diver, film maker and conservationist
Paul Humann
Carl Roessler
2008
Cathy Church – American marine biologist, diver, photographer and educator
James Dailey (Honouree)
Bob Halstead – Underwater photographer, author, journalist and commentator on the recreational diving industry.
Kem Jackson (Honouree)
Daniel Mercier
Drew Richardson
Ron Steven
2009
Kimiuo Aisek[8]
Geri Murphy
Howard Rosenstein
Larry Smith
2010
Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
Nick Icorn
Francis Toribiong
Wyland – American muralist (born 1956)
2011
Howard and Michele Hall
Andre Labn
Clement Lee[9]
Bev Morgan
Allan Power[10]
2012
Clive Cussler – American novelist and underwater explorer (1931–2020)
Ric and Do Cammick
Ron Kipp
Armand and JoAnn Zigahn[11]
Kelly Tarlton – New Zealand marine archaeologist[12]
Leslie Leaney[13]
2013
Sam Davison
Guy Harvey – Jamaican marine wildlife artist and conservationist
Bert Kilbride
Rolf Schmidt – German sailor
Petra Roeglin
2015
Nancy Easterbrook (Honouree)[14]
Bill High
Peter Hughes[15]
Gladys B. Howard (Honouree)
Dr Albert Jones
Wally Muller
Dr. James Poulson (Honouree)
Dimitri Rebikoff
2016
Bob Barth – Pioneering US Navy aquanautPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Ramón Bravo – Mexican diver photographer and underwater filmmaker[16]
Philippe Cousteau, Senior – French diver and cinematographer (1940–1979)
Stuart Cove[17]
Kyuhachi Kataoka (Early pioneer)
Dr. Joe MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut
Kanezo Ohgushi (Early pioneer)
Riichi Watanabe (Early pioneer)
2017
2018
H. S. Batuna
Stephen Frink – Underwater photographer and publisher[18]
Wulf H. Koehler
Boris Porotov
Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving
Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer (Honoured posthumously 2018 Early Pioneer Award)
2019
Jonathan Bird – American photographer, cinematographer, director and television host.
Hussain "Sendi" Rasheed
Lee Selisky
Adel Mohamed Taher[19]
2020
Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker
Tom Ingram
Avi Klapfer
Jim Gatacre