diving dress
Example Sentences
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Otherwise the buoyancy of the diving dress, filled as it is with air, would send him to the surface.
From Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank by Barnum, Vance
In fact, if you recall, my father and I perfected a new style diving dress a few years ago that was successfully used in getting down to a wreck off the Cuban coast.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
"He was locked up in that blasted diving dress!"
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
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 Verne, Jules
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
