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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 McCutcheon, George Barr