diving dress
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One of the men puts a diving dress over his suit of heavy flannels.
From Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
A diving dress and equipment weighs about l75 lb, including a 40 lb lead weight carried by the diver on his chest, a similar weight on his back, and l6lb of lead on each boot.
From The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Henry C. Adams
Some ten minutes later Jack and Milsom appeared on deck, each attired in an improved Fleuss diving dress, by the use of which the necessity for air-pumps and pipes was done away with.
From The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Cyrus Cuneo
The disposition of the screws corresponds with that of the holes in the india-rubber collar of the diving dress described below.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Benito, invariably very cool once his resolution was taken, commenced to put his idea into execution, and got into the diving dress.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
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