skin-diving

skin-diving
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
scuba diving, snorkeling.
WORD FIND
• air flow apparatus: regulator
• ascend slowly, stop, ascend: decompress
• breathing tube for shallow swimming: snorkel
• dangerous narcotic effect of deep water diving: nitrogen narcosis, *rapture of the deep
• decompression sickness: bends
• diver: frogman, aquanaut, scuba diver, pearl diver
• line tied between two divers to keep them together in dark: buddy line
• red signal flag with white bar: diver down flag
• responsibility for fellow diver: buddy system
• rubber suit: wet suit
• sharing of air with another diver: buddy breathing
• water pressure, lessening of: decompression
• weight regulator: buoyancy compensator, weight belt

English dictionary for students. 2013.

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