Diving suit
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A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. A diving suit may also incorporate a breathing gas supply, but in most cases the term applies only to
Two divers, one wearing a 1 atmosphere diving suit and the other standard diving dress, preparing to explore the wreck of the RMS Lusitania, 1935
John Lethbridge's diving dress, the first enclosed diving suit, built in the 1710s.
Early diving suit on display at the Naval History Museum in Mexico City.
Diver of the Estonian Home Guard, 1941
Wetsuit
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A wetsuit is a garment worn to provide thermal protection while wet. It is usually made of foamed neoprene, and is worn by surfers, divers, windsurfers, canoeists, and others engaged in water sports a
Diving suit
…with any other equipment necessary for the dive. Diving suits can be divided into two classes: "soft" or ambient pressure diving suits – examples are wetsuits, dry suits, semi-dry suits and dive skins – and "hard" or atmospheric pressure diving suits, armored suits that keep the diver at atmospheric pressure…
Spring suit (shorty) and steamer (full suit) one-piece suits
Scuba divers in one-piece full-length wetsuits, one wearing a hood
One-piece suit worn by kitesurfer
High visibility suit for sea rescue