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US
/ˈɑkwəˌnɑt/
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NOUN
- an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder
- a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research
How To Use aquanaut In A Sentence
- What in the name of aquanautics do you think _you're_ doing? Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
- But a few less lucky aquanauts - 13 to be exact - have perished on the wreck in the last 20 years since it became accessible to recreational divers, five within the past three years.
- Before reaching the entry point, the intrepid aquanaut, pink with exertion, has to pick his way delicately through a crowd of anglers armed with filleting knives before he can take an elegant step into the water.
- For about $10,000 a day, aquanauts have access to the habitat - and the ocean - with all the comforts of home: six bunks, a shower, instant hot water, a microwave, a refrigerator, air conditioning and computers.
- Joining the smart red and blue-liveried Maureen alone, I was, of course, interested in my fellow aquanauts: not least because one of them would become my buddy!
- A one-man submarine which can plunge to the icy depths of the sea allowing aquanauts access to a previously unreachable marine world has arrived in Hull to make a valuable addition to the city's rich maritime heritage.
- As such, conditions are similar to those on the Moon or Mars, the aquanauts said.
- And talk about challenges - the University of Maryland-bound aquanaut stands ‘maybe’ 5-feet tall with short arms, legs, small hands and feet.
- In calm waters, near a reef off New Providence Island, instructors teach novice aquanauts how to mount the SUB and then guide them into 15 feet of clear ocean to motor past coral reefs and brightly colored tropical fish.
- One little boy asked Scott Carpenter how his experiences as an "aquanaut" living inside the experimental underwater habitat Sealab compared to his experiences orbiting the Earth as an astronaut. Zoe P. Strassfield: Counting My Blessings