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aqualung|ˈækwəlʌŋ|
[f. aqua- + lung.]
A portable diving apparatus consisting of containers of compressed air strapped on the back which feed air automatically through a valve and mouthpiece to the diver as he requires it. Also attrib. Hence ˈaqualunger |-ŋ-|, a user of the aqualung; ˈaqualung v. intr., to use this equipment; ˈaqualunging vbl. n.
1950Sci. News Let. 11 Nov. 306/3 The underwater photographer is equipped with an ‘Aqualung’, an automatic compressed air, self-contained diving unit. 1952J. Y. Cousteau in Nat. Geogr. Mag. Oct. 434 Moving in a dense element, Aqualungers must learn to be languid. 1953Cousteau & Dumas Silent World i. 1 In June 1943..a new and promising device..an automatic compressed-air diving lung conceived by Émile Gagnan and myself... No children ever opened a Christmas present with more excitement than we did when we unpacked the first ‘aqualung’. Ibid. 96 (caption) Auguste Piccard, inventor of the Bathyscaphe, the undersea dirigible, tries aqualunging at Dakar. 1959Elizabethan June 21/1 Fishermen are still bringing up old cannon and bits of bronze from the great galleons of the Spanish Armada, some awaiting excavation by aqualung divers. 1961I. Fleming Thunderball xviii. 199 You oughtn't to aqualung by yourself. |