Claire Paris

Claire Beatrix Paris-Limouzy, known as Claire Paris, is a marine scientist and freediver who holds United States national records and world records in freediving. She grew up in Carcassonne, France, with early interests in snorkeling, surfing and sailing, earned a master degree in biochemistry at the University of Bordeaux and a doctorate at Stony Brook University in 2001, and became a professor at the University of Miami in 2017. Her research follows fish larvae and tracks particles in ocean currents, and she uses her freediving to run experiments among fish without disturbing them and to place instruments deep in the water.