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n. - Large somewhat primitive fish-eating bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; Someone who jumps headfirst (into water); Someone who works underwater.

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  • At 30 feet down the pressure on the diver is the same in a swimming pool, lake or ocean.
  • Usually Journalism, when a diver is devoured by a shark, says that, and it is enough.
  • Several times filling and emptying his lungs in diver fashion, Grief turned over and went down through the water.
  • If, that is, the diver ducks take to the air and visit our decoys.
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