Definition of DIVING. Meaning of DIVING. Synonyms of DIVING

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Definition of DIVING

Diving
Diving Div"ing, a. That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle (Zo["o]l.), any beetle of the family Dytiscid[ae], which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger. Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

Meaning of DIVING from wikipedia

- Look up diving or dive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diving most often refers to: Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water Underwater...
- diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...
- Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation...
- Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...
- Navy Diving Manual indicates that ascent rates greater than about 20 m/min (66 ft/min) when diving increase the chance of DCS, while recreational dive tables...
- atmospheric pressure are provided for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as...
- Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...
- Ikematsu / Takumi Kitamura A diving thoroughbred with two former divers as parents. He's a high school student who's been diving ever since his second-year...
- Sea, four divers were in a diving chamber system on the rig's deck that was connected by a trunk (a short p****age) to a diving bell. The divers were Edwin...
- Deep diving is underwater diving to a depth beyond the norm accepted by the ****ociated community. In some cases this is a prescribed limit established...