diving dress
Example Sentences
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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 Harold Bindloss
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
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
They had no special object on the ocean floor, except to try the new diving dress, and it seemed to operate successfully.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Nobody suggested getting dinner and Jimmy went down as soon as he could put on the diving dress.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
