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- sport of plunging into water, usually head foremost, performed with the addition of gymnastic and acrobatic stunts. In its more elaborate, acrobatic form, diving originated in Europe early in the ...
- diving bell
- small diving apparatus that is used to transport divers between the seafloor or lower depths and the surface. Early bells consisted of a container open only at the bottom, usually ...
- diving duck
- any duck that obtains its food by diving to the bottom in deep water rather than by dabbling in shallows (see dabbling duck). On the basis of kinship and to ...
- diving petrel
- any of five species of small seabirds of the sub-Antarctic regions that constitute the family Pelecanoididae (order Procellariiformes). Although their nearest relatives are the storm petrels, shearwaters, and albatrosses, diving ...
- diving suit
- watertight costume for underwater use, connected to the surface or to a diving bell by a tube that provides the wearer with air. The suit, invented early in the 19th ...
- Divini, Eustachio
- Italian scientist, one of the first to develop the technology necessary for producing scientific optical instruments.
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