deep sea dive

Underwater exploration trip

A deep sea dive is an underwater descent to significant depths, typically requiring specialized equipment like diving suits, submersibles, or saturation diving systems.

The term applies both to recreational dives beyond standard scuba limits and to commercial or scientific operations reaching hundreds or thousands of meters: The deep sea dive revealed species never before documented.

Opposites
depth/verticality

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Surface swimming with breathing tube

wading · floating · shallow dive · treading water · paddling

direction of movement

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Upward movement

surfacing · rising · climbing · coming up · emerging

Family

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