diving dress

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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

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

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.]

In an hour the sloop had been warped close to the wreck and Jimmy put on the diving dress.

From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold

"He was locked up in that blasted diving dress!"

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John