When a question asks for a rate it usually means the answer required is some quantity divided by time.
Here it asks for rate of descent so the answer will be how much descended during a period of time.
How much descended ? 130 feet. How long did the process of descending last ? 35 minutes. Then the rate would be 130/ 35 feet per minute.
5 years ago
Carnot
The unit of the answer is essential. It would have difference if changed to miles per secend , etc.
1 feet per minute means the diver descend 1 feet in one minute , in average, of the 35 minutes peroid.