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bottom time

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noun

Scuba Diving.
  1. the total time, in minutes, from the beginning of a descent to the beginning of an ascent.


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“I thought it’d be cool instead of them swimming around, getting six hours of bottom time per day,” he says.

From Scientific American Sep. 9, 2018

Given that our bottom time in hours is probably still in the double digits down there, I am sure there are still surprises waiting.

From Scientific American Apr. 15, 2013

It’s finally hit bottom, time to get in.’”

From BusinessWeek Jan. 25, 2012

When we came through it the ship scraped bottom time and again.

From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon

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