page_title: Outline of sharks
section_title: Notable researchers and people
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of sharks / Notable researchers and people
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sharks:
  Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 440 million years ago, before the time of the dinosaurs.
context_section_description: Peter Benchley – author of the novel Jaws, later worked for shark conservation
  Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist researching poisonous fish and the behavior of sharks; popularly known as The Shark Lady
  Leonard Compagno – international authority on shark taxonomy, best known for 1984 catalog of shark species (FAO)
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau – French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water including sharks
  Ben Cropp – Australian former shark hunter, who stopped in 1962 to produce some 150 wildlife documentaries
  Richard Ellis – American marine biologist, author, and illustrator.
  Rodney Fox – Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of great white shark attack and one of the world's foremost authorities on them
  Andre Hartman – South African diving guide best known for free-diving unprotected with great white sharks
  Hans Hass – diving pioneer, known for shark documentaries
  Mike Rutzen – great white shark expert and outspoken champion of shark conservation; known for free diving unprotected with great white sharks
  Ron & Valerie Taylor – ex-spearfishing champions who switched from killing to filming underwater documentaries
  Rob Stewart (filmmaker) – Canadian photographer, filmmaker and conservationist. He was best known for making and directing the documentary film Sharkwater
caption: Hans Hass, diving pioneer
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