2014年9月16日 星期二

outing, jaunt, bottom time

The Greek team is being assisted by Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at Massachusetts in the US, which was involved in a dive to the wreck of the Titanic. He has helped with outings to identify ancient shipwrecks over the past five years.


"We may find one or more monumental statues that were left behind in 1901, in the mistaken belief that they were rocks," Foley said.

As well as the Exosuit, the Antikythera expedition will also use robot mapping equipment and new advanced closed-circuit "rebreathers", which will allow divers much more time underwater.

"We will have more bottom time than any previous human visitors to the site, because we dive with mixed gas rebreathers," the expedition's website says.

"Each diver will have more than 30 minutes of bottom time per day, and will enjoy greater mental acuity and a larger safety margin than that of previous divers at Antikythera."

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jaunt (jônt, jänt) pronunciationn.
A short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; an outing.

intr.v., jaunt·ed, jaunt·ing, jaunts.
To make a short journey.

[Origin unknown.]


outing

Line breaks: out¦ing
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtɪŋ 
  
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NOUN

1A trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:a family outing to Weston-super-Mare
1.1A brief journey from home:her daily outing to the shops
1.2INFORMAL An appearance in something, especially a sporting event or film:Madonna’s first screen outing in three years
2[MASS NOUN] The practice of revealing the homosexuality of a prominent person:the outing of gays by the press

Origin

late Middle English (in the sense 'the action of going out or of expelling'): from the verb out -ing1.

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