diving dress
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Moran, coming aft, felt the bag, and looked at the diving dress with longing, but he supported Jimmy’s decision.
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
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 Cuneo, Cyrus
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
He gasped once or twice, and then began to fumble awkwardly at the breast of the diving dress.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
