diving suit

Noun

Meaning

a weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers

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diving-suit

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Bud volunteers to use an experimental diving suit equipped with a liquid breathing apparatus to survive to that depth, though he will only be able to communicate through a keypad on the suit. Source: Internet

If the vessel contents are ignitable or a contaminant is present this event may result in a "fireball". citation History In the 1920s or 1930s Draeger of Germany made a nitrox backpack independent air supply for a standard diving suit. Source: Internet

Historical Diving Society magazine issue 45, page 37 * 1829: Charles Anthony Deane and John Deane of Whitstable in Kent in England design the first air-pumped diving helmet for use with a diving suit. Source: Internet

His lecture, titled Fantômes paranoiaques authentiques main, was delivered while wearing a deep-sea diving suit and helmet. Source: Internet

Only a few flasks of quicksilver were recovered using the diving suit so Captain Nickols decided to abandon the effort. Source: Internet

Gauzen's diving suit and its further modifications were used by the Russian Navy until 1880. Source: Internet

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