The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus \Self`-con*tained" Underwater Breathing Apparatus\, n. A portable device to allow divers to breathe while under water, consisting of one or two tanks of compressed air which are strapped onto the back of the diver, and are connected by tubing to a mouthpiece through which the diver receives the air from the tanks at rate adjustable by a valve; -- called also SCUBA, SCUBA gear, or SCUBA apparatus.
Usage examples of "scuba gear".
Each man was wearing a black wet suit and SCUBA gear, and his face had been completely blackened with waterproof paint.
I struggled into the scuba gear, double-checked when I remembered that I'd done it wrong once off Blue Kills, peeled on the Darth Vader mask, turned on the big strobe, and dove.
Her aft deck was piled with scuba gear: tanks and dry suits, flippers, masks and fins.
He'd already fetched the scuba gear when he'd gone to the hotel for the track suit, and there wasn't anything else to do but wait 'Ferris.
Despite the short time, Piet had done a painstaking check of the Scuba gear: pressure, at 3000 lb.
They rummaged through the ropes and fenders in the large stern locker aft of the laboratory and I thanked God I hadn't followed my original idea of stowing the dinghy, motor and scuba gear in there.
They rummaged through the ropes and fenders in the large stem locker aft of the laboratory and I thanked God I hadn't followed my original idea of stowing the dinghy, motor and scuba gear in there.
Like, tonight, she had to take two full sets of rental scuba gear over to a charter boat at Dinner Key Marina, which meant driving into the Grove, which was of course going to be a zoo on a Saturday night.
Consequently it was nearly impossible to get close to a whale with scuba gear, especially a static animal like a singer or a breath-holder.
In the past Clay had dropped on breath-holders with scuba gear, only to watch the animals swim off before he got within fifty feet of them.