diving dress
Example Sentences
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He had slipped into his diving dress and was at the moment adjusting the breastplates of lead, weighing twenty-five pounds each, to his chest and back.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
I could have walked right aft under decks if I’d had a diving dress; but I’d been in the water long enough, and a sea fog was creeping up.”
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
Still he might go down, and Jimmy knew that it is hard to recover one’s balance in a diving dress.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
Self-contained Diving Dress.—The object of the self-contained diving dress is to make the diver independent of air supply from the surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
He gave orders for the engine room force to stand by and then arranged for himself, Ned, and Koku to go outside in diving dress and cut the weed off the shafts.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
