diving dress
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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
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
Accordingly, on the completion of the meal, the quartette descended to the diving-room, and there donned their armour, taking the additional precaution of adding a flannel overall to their ordinary inner diving dress.
From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon
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
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.
