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schnorkel

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schnorkel, or snorkel.
1. The German name given to a tube attachment providing an air supply to a submarine at periscope depth. It was abbreviated in the British Navy as a ‘snort’ and was called a snorkel in the US Navy. A conventional submarine has to use its electric engines after it has dived as its diesel engines depend on a constant supply of oxygen. When the Germans overran the Netherlands in 1940 during the Second World War (1939–45) they captured a half-completed Dutch submarine fitted with a tube which enabled the diesel engines to obtain air so long as the vessel did not go below periscope depth.

2. The name of the breathing tube recreational swimmers use. It allows them to keep their faces under water so that they can view what is below them. See diving.

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schnorkel see SNORKEL.

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