The invention provides a sideband-information-free shallow sea underwater acoustic communication pattern selection peak-to-average ratio restraining algorithm based on a frequency reversal mirror technology. At a data sending end, scrambling is carried out on data to be sent through M sets of different scrambling patterns, meanwhile, M sets of different comb-shaped pilot frequency positions are defined as signs, comb-shaped pilot frequency sequences are added to different pilot frequency positions to obtain candidate OFDM symbols, fast Fourier inversion is carried out on the candidate OFDM symbols to a time domain, and the symbol with the smallest peak-to-average ratio is selected as a transmission symbol; at a receiving end, fast Fourier inversion is carried out on received signals, frequency domain received information corresponding to the different comb-shaped pilot frequency positions is extracted to obtain pilot frequency domain response, matching pursuit is carried out on the pilot frequency domain reesponse, M sets of channel frequency domain response are restored, in frequency domain reversion, the cross correlation coefficients of the pilot frequency domain response and the channel frequency domain response is calculated, the value m corresponding to the maximum value in the M correlation coefficients is obtained, and finally descrambling is carried out through serial number information. The algorithm can guarantee the real-time performance and the reliability of an MIMO-OFDM underwater acoustic communication system.