Diving - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: divingDiving
That dives or is used or diving...
bathyscaph
navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration...
bathysphere
a spherical deep diving apparatus lowered by a cable for underwater exploration it is constructed with a strong steel shell to withstand high pressures at the ocean bottom...
Caisson disease
A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure as in caissons diving bells etc It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas usually nitrogen from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues when a person having been in an environment with high air pressure moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing It may be fatal but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids It is a danger well known to divers It is also called the bends and decompression sickness It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water such as helium...
Charadriiformes
large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters shorebirds and coastal diving birds most feed on animal life...
Cinclidae
a natural family of birds comprising the water ouzels also called dippers which dive under water in flowing streams...
crash dive
to descend steeply and rapidly of aircraft...
Dabchick
A small water bird Podilymbus podiceps allied to the grebes remarkable for its quickness in diving called also dapchick dobchick dipchick didapper dobber devil diver hell diver and pied billed grebe...
Dive
To plunge into water head foremost to thrust the body under or deeply into water or other fluid...
Diver
One who or that which dives...
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