diving dress
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I’ve never put on a diving dress and you have had some experience; and I’m willing to use your boat and let your friends control the pumps.”
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
But you know there is a limit to how far down a man in even my kind of diving dress can go.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
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 Adams, Henry C.
The diving dress has, however, to a great extent supplanted the diving bell.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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
