John Morgan Wells

Morgan Wells
Morgan Wells in 1965 on the Sealab project
Born	John Morgan Wells (1940-04-12)April 12, 1940 Hopewell, Virginia, U.S.
Died	July 28, 2017(2017-07-28) (aged 77) Matthews, Virginia, U.S.
Alma mater	Randolph-Macon College Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Scientific career
Fields	Diving medicine, Diver training
Institutions	NOAA
Thesis	Pressure and Hemoglobin Oxygenation  (1969)

John Morgan Wells (April 12, 1940 - July 28, 2017) was a marine biologist, and physiologist involved in the development of decompression systems for deep diving, and the use of nitrox as a breathing gas for diving. He is known for developing the widely used NOAA Nitrox I (32% O2/N2) and II (36% O2/N2) mixtures and their decompression tables in the late 1970s, the deep diving mixture of oxygen, helium, and nitrogen known as NOAA Trimix I, for research in undersea habitats, where divers live and work under pressure for extended periods, and for training diving physicians and medical technicians in hyperbaric medicine.^[1]