Phil Nuytten

Phil Nuytten
Born	1941 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Citizenship	Canadian
Occupation	Entrepreneur, deep-ocean explorer, scientist, inventor
Years active	1955-present
Employer	Self
Organization	Nuytco Research Ltd.
Known for	Newtsuit

R. T. "Phil" Nuytten (born 1941) is a Canadian entrepreneur, deep-ocean explorer, scientist, inventor of the Newtsuit, and founder of Nuytco Research Ltd.

He has pioneered designs related to diving equipment, and has worked with NASA for more than 25 years on applications related undersea and space technologies.

Today, his equipment is used by a wide range of organizations, including the National Geographic Society, NASA, and is standard for almost a dozen navies.

Nuytten was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is a Métis. He was subsequently formally adopted into the Kwakiutl nation. While still in his teens, he began to design diving gear, and opened the first dive shop in Western Canada.

Nuytten has worked in numerous countries as a commercial diver. In his work for the commercial, scientific, and military industries, he has developed equipment and deep-water diving, and technical diving techniques.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Nuytten was involved in the development of mixed-gas decompression tables. He was part of a team that accomplished the first 600 FSW (feet of seawater) ocean "bounce" dives on Project Nesco.

In the 1970s, he co-founded Oceaneering International, Inc. This company became one of the largest underwater skills companies in the world.

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