Past Recipients of the Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
| 2023 | Fausto Ferreira |
| 2022 | John Watson |
| 2021 | Albert (Sandy) J. Williams, 3rd |
| 2020 | N. Ross Chapman |
| 2019 | Marinna Martini |
| 2018 | Jerry Carroll |
| 2017 | Robert L. Wernli |
| 2016 | Harumi Sugimatsu |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Creed |
| 2014 | Diane DiMassa |
| 2013 | Robert Bannon |
| 2012 | Robert Spindel |
| 2011 | James Barbera |
| 2010 | Thomas Freud Wiener |
| 2009 | Christian de Moustier |
| 2008 | Archie Todd Morrison III |
| 2007 | Stephen M. Holt |
| 2006 | Rene Garello |
| 2005 | Claude P. Brancart |
| 2004 | William M. Carey |
| 2003 | Joseph Czika |
| 2002 | James S. Collins |
| 2001 | Claude P. Brancart |
| 2000 | Frederick H. Maltz |
| 1999 | Pierre Sabathé |
| 1998 | Norman D. Miller |
| 1997 | Ferial M. El-Hawary |
| 1996 | Glen N. Williams |
| 1995 | David E. Weissman |
| 1994 | Daniel L. Alspach |
| 1993 | Edward W. Early |
| 1992 | Gordon Raisbeck |
| 1991 | Frederick H. Fisher |
| 1990 | Anthony I. Eller |
| 1989 | Eric Herz |
| 1988 | Harold A. Sabbagh |
| 1987 | Stanley L. Ehrlich |
| 1986 | Stanley G. Chamberlain |
| 1985 | Joseph R. Vadus |
| 1984 | John C. Redmond |
| 1983 | Elmer P. Wheaton |
| 1982 | Arthur S. Westneat |
| 1981 | Lloyd Z. Maudlin |
| 1980 | Donald M. Bolle |
| 1979 | Richard M. Emberson |
| 1978 | Edward W. Early |
| 1977 | Calvin T. Swift |
| 1976 | Frank Snodgrass |
| 1975 | Arthur S. Westneat |