8 Amazing Female Scuba Divers

Long been thought of a man’s sport, over the last decade, scuba diving is starting to get more and more women into it.  Discover some amazing female divers, not only showing the beauty of the underwater world, but truly making a difference to our oceans and the aquatic fauna.

Julia Hartle

Captain, Biologist and Diver

Certified and experienced PADI instructor and divemaster, Julia Hartle is also a professional shark safety diver and researcher for  OneOceanDiving. She first studied marine vertebrates and conservation biology before working seasonally aboard Research Vessels in the northwestern Hawaiian islands.

Her intent is to inspire appreciation for sharks by connecting citizen and scientists to understand that they are essential to the health of the ocean.  Sharks do not see people as a prey item or listen to the Jaws soundtrack for fun.

Sarah Richard

Travel and Scuba Dive Writer

Sarah has worked as one of the only female Divemasters ever, at the age of 25, in one of the scuba world’s best kept secrets; Micronesia. She  knows her way around a WW2 shipwreck like no other. She began writing about her underwater adventures on her blog and quickly got asked to write for international publications about being a woman in the dive industry.

She created an online community Girls that Scuba to bring together women all around the world and encourage them to start diving. As a volunteer for the Hong Kong Shark foundation, her passion and love for sharks and the ocean is infectious. Her next mission is to start filming and documenting her underwater journeys in some of the best dive sites in the world to show other women how amazing scuba diving truly is.

Ocean Ramsey

Shark & Marine research & Conservation

Growing up surfing and diving in Hawaii and San Diego, Ocean (yes, that is her real name) shared the water with sharks her entire life. She’s a professional scuba instructor, advanced free diver and surfer and now dedicates her life to observing and protecting sharks. She says:

Nadia Aly

Ocean. Travel. Nature. Aerial. | CEO of Scuba Diver Life

CEO of the largest scuba diving website online, Nadia went from a corporate employee to her own boss.

Fours years after,  her site scubadiverlife.com attracts over 1 million viewers a month and she travels the world diving the best of the seven seas.

Becky Kagan Schott

Emmy award winning underwater cinematographer, photographer and CCR Instructor

Becky’s projects have taken her all over the globe from documenting historic wrecks in over 300 feet of water in Japan and the Great Lakes, to rappelling into caves, filming under ice in the Bering Sea and even diving cage less with Great White Sharks.

She’s been the Underwater Director of Photography on documentaries for National Geographic and RED BULL shooting cave exploration and capturing these beautiful environments in 4K.

Her experience working in remote locations around the world and facing the challenges of filming in extreme environments has earned her a reputation of producing quality images in challenging situations.

Margo Peyton

Creator of Family Dive Adventures, PADI diver for over 20 years and Professional Underwater Photo Instructor

Margo Peyton’s ability to inspire and motivate people to go beyond their self-perceived borders and discover their inner adventurer is unmatched. She is a creator and a visionary that has worked hard to support family values through creating Family Dive Adventures and Kids Sea Camp event weeks.

Her love for her children and the ocean enables her to persevere through Kids Sea Camp, providing places where families can go and dive together.

An avid diver since 1989, with over 5,000 logged dives, Margo loves working with and teaching kids. She was inducted into the Woman’s Scuba Diving Hall of fame in 2009 for her dedication and contribution to diving and educating kids.

Gemma Smith

Technical diver, Cave diving instructor, Women in diving advocate.

She is the first woman ever to dive at the world famous Antikythera Shipwreck, which yielded some of the most important ancient sculptures ever to be found on the seabed. Gemma supports woman to go beyond their limits:

– And last, but not least –

Sylvia Earle

Marine biologist, Explorer, Author, and Lecturer

The winner of the 2009 TED Prize, Sylvia is a tireless advocate for our oceans. She has been exploring them for over 60 years now!

As captain of the first all-female team to live underwater in 1970, she and her fellow scientists received a White House reception upon their return to the surface.

In 1979, she walked on the seafloor at a lower depth than any other woman before or since. Saving the ocean is her mission and she has made it her life’s purpose to educate the world on how we can all join together and save our oceans that are currently dying rapidly.

Sylvia is one of the most inspirational women living today.