noun
skin diver
A person who dives without a wetsuit or scuba gear, typically in warm water. The term is a direct loan from English and is used in Japanese diving contexts.
彼はスキンダイバーとして、素潜りで魚を捕る。
As a skin diver, he catches fish by free-diving.
素潜り is the native Japanese term for free-diving or skin diving, often used interchangeably but more common in traditional contexts.
Variant spelling with an interpunct, reflecting the English word boundary.
Loanword from English 'skin diver'.