drown vs snorkel

drown

verb
  • To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. 

  • To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. 

  • To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. 

  • To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. 

  • To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. 

snorkel

verb
  • To use a snorkel. 

noun
  • A snorkel parka. 

  • A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth. 

  • A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater. 

How often have the words drown and snorkel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )