scuba

Examples

• All

• Get this man into some scuba gear.

  Airport '77 (1977)

• Have you heard of scuba diving?

  Dead Ringers (1988)

• My men will enter with scuba gear.

  Thirteen Lives (2022)

• "Get one of your crew into scuba gear, just in case."

  Fiction book (1999)

• But you've been scuba diving before, right?

  2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)

• Against the forward bulkhead, a long row of scuba tanks was secured.

  Fiction book (1991)

• When Lydia Gold goes scuba diving alone, she discovers how deadly the deep sea can be.

  Fiction book (2002)

• In 1943, the invention of the Aqua-Lung, a pressurized-air delivery system, initiated modern scuba diving.

  Academic text (2009)

• In the Puerto Cortes area, seven artisanal divers use scuba gear to catch lobsters and conchs.

  Academic text (1996)

• In the Puerto Cortes area, seven artisanal divers use scuba gear to catch lobsters and conchs.

Synonyms

A

Aqua-Lung

vsscuba

• Archaic

1 7.7

A breathing device divers use to breathe underwater before modern scuba gear

is the later, widely adopted form of that equipment used today

A

aqualung

vsscuba

• Specialized

1 6.8

A device that lets a diver breathe underwater

is the modern term for the same self-contained underwater air supply

Compounds

S

scuba diving

28 3.2

An activity in which you swim and explore underwater while using breathing equipment

S

scuba diver

8 3.2

A person who swims underwater using a breathing tank

How Deep

bathyscaphe

• Specialized

1 9.9

submersible

• Specialized

11 7.2

diving bell

• Specialized

1 6.3

scuba

• Specialized

64 3.7

snorkel

11 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology