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Two men had been diving for golf balls in the lake, but emergency services were called when only one man resurfaced, BBC News NI understands.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2021

Equipped with a dry sense of humour and a passing physical resemblance to Hollywood tough guy Vin Diesel, Paakkarinen had been diving longer than any of the others.

From BBC • May 8, 2016

He had been diving into the deep end of the swimming pool since he was eighteen months old.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

By midnight I had been diving so much that I decided to get a charge on the batteries before dawn; I also wanted to be up at 1 a.m. to make my position report.

From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir

A new passenger, for the first time in a submarine, has often professed to be unaware that he was fathoms deep under water and has been quite unconscious that the boat had been diving.

From The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner by Forstner, Georg-Günther, Freiherr von