diving dress
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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
He had slipped into his diving dress and was at the moment adjusting the breastplates of lead, weighing twenty-five pounds each, to his chest and back.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
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.
From Bayhaven they had hastened south by fast trains, stopping on the way to buy diving dress.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry
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
