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Some men spend much of their time under water. They are called divers. If anything goes wrong with a ship below the waterline, a diver puts on his suit and goes down with his tools to repair the damage. He wears a special kind of suit made of rubber and canvas, which keeps out the water. It covers his body from feet to neck but leaves his hands free. His sleeves end in watertight cuffs at the wrist. He puts on a heavy helmet connected with a tube, which brings air from above the surface of the water. The helmet has windows and fastens to the neck of his suit. In order that the diver may sink, his suit is "padded" back and front with plate of lead and his shoes are weighted with metal. His clothes weigh about 150 pounds. Would you like to be a diver, and perhaps go down to the bottom of the ocean to save the lives of men in a damaged submarine?