Sentence examples for aqualung from inspiring English sources
noun
A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater at depth.
The French scientist Jacques-Yves Cousteau developed the self-contained breathing apparatus known as the scuba, of which the most commonly used type is the aqualung.
Tells about spearfishing which is not done with an aqualung but with just a snorkel & flippers.
He was so weak from his accident that he had to have his aqualung strapped on for him and then had to be pushed into the sea.
Clarke was immediately seized by the idea, and he was soon taking skin-diving lessons in various London swimming pools, and diving with a rented aqualung in the English Channel.
Shortly thereafter, on the bounty from the Book-of-the-Month Book-of-the-Month Book-of-the-Month Book-of-the-Month ClubClarkee & Fitch, bought his first aqualung, which he put to use in the Weeki Wachee Springs, near Clearwater, Florida.
Clarke does not speak Sinhalese, so the house reverberates with a constant buzz of multilingual conversations that are all but unintelligible over the din of aqualung compressors and the general hammering that goes with the maintenance of the diving equipment.
Mr. Dugan refutes Rachel L. Carson's statement to the effect that a non-armored diver can go no deeper than 60 ft. Members of the Groupe de Recherches Sous-Marines, of the French Navy, at Toulon, attained 50 fathoms without diving armor, they were using the Aqualung.
What he called the "Equilibrium" series — basketballs in tanks, framed Nike posters featuring professional basketball stars, and flotation devices (an aqualung, a rubber dinghy) cast in non-floating bronze — was shown in the spring of 1985 at a new East Village gallery called International with Monument.
In addition to Carolis, Clarke maintains a staff of two houseboys, a secretary with an impenetrable Tamil name that has been shortened to Thambi, and a Ceylonese boatman named Martin, who has been with Clarke and Wilson since the beginning, and who spends his time taking care of a garageful of aqualungs, flippers, air compressors, spears, masks, snorkels, and other such gear.
Mentions sleeping bags, beach balls, rubber life rafts, Air Force jet pilots' helmets which are used by auto & speedboat racers; B-29 bomb-bay-door air compressors used by skin divers to put air in their aqualungs.
"We don't wear gorilla suits or aqualungs.
