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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Now it's your turn to dive, dive, dive down to the examples below.]]
3	->''"Man the helms! Dive! Dive!"''
4	-->-- '''Ed''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''
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6	StockPhrases used on [[CoolBoat submarines]] or anything to do with something going down. Commonly used in a panicky, unrealistic way to indicate that the submariners are in trouble or need to escape.
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8	Also commonly inverted when a sub performs an "emergency blow" to quickly rise to the surface; in that case, the command is "Surface! Surface!"
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10	Not to be confused with AttackAttackAttack or ''Film/ToraToraTora''.
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12	!!Examples:
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17	In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #16, Indy and Captain Katanga, along with Katanga's crew, take over a submarine belonging to a crew of SubmarinePirates. They then have to make a crash dive to avoid the depth charges of an Imperial Japanese cruiser.
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20	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
21	* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'': Happens when the penguins dig into Marty’s enclosure. "Hoover Dam! We're still in New York. Abort mission! Dive, dive!"
22	* Both Shrek and Donkey say this to Dragon during an AerialCanyonChase scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' (the Platform/ThreeDMovie that plays at Ride/UniversalStudios).
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25	[[folder:Film -- Live--Action]]
26	* In ''Film/FlashGordon1980'', [[Creator/BrianBlessed PRINCE VULTAN]] gives the order "SQUADRON FORTYYYYY! ''DIIIVEE!''"
27	* All submarine movies have a dive scene: ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'', ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'', ''Film/{{U571}}'', ''Film/CrimsonTide'', ''Film/TheEnemyBelow'' ... ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' also features an Inversion of this trope, with the submarine USS ''Dallas'' doing an "Emergency Blow" of her ballast tanks to send her rocketing to the surface to avoid an incoming torpedo. This sends a 100-meter submarine bolting out of the water like a breaching whale while stunned sailors on the surface look on.
28	* Rob Schneider in ''Film/DownPeriscope''. "Prepare for dive!"
29	* ''Film/DasBoot'' the officer on watch shouts, "ALARM!" followed by a flurry of orders and every unoccupied hand rushing to the front of the submarine to increase the weight there so it will dive faster. Deconstructed at Gibraltar when the immersion can't be stabilized due to the damage sustained and the boat keeps diving and diving out of control.
30	* In a deleted scene in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', Dr. Evil tried giving these types of commands, parroted by [[NoIndoorVoice Frau Farbissina]], tilting the sub every which way, until an unnamed officer gave some ''real'' commands. [[LampshadeHanging Dr. Evil even said he did it out of love for]] ''Film/DasBoot'', "or as we call it in English... 'The Boot'".
31	* Heard in ''Film/RunSilentRunDeep'' on a couple of occasions, including once when it is cut off by the depth charge that sinks the submarine.
32	* In ''Film/MorningDeparture'', the ''Trojan'' dives in an attempt to avoid the SeaMine, with disastrous consequences.
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35	[[folder:Literature]]
36	* Averted in Creator/AlistairMacLean's novel ''Film/IceStationZebra''. Many scenes take place aboard a nuclear submarine, and the first time that it dives, the captain merely says "Okay men, we're going down." The protagonist finds this rather disappointing.
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39	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
40	* In the "Health and Safety" episode of ''Series/{{QI}}'', Ross Noble got this as a buzzer.
41	* An episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' that takes place aboard a submarine on a training exercise features both diving and an emergency blow.
42	* Said in dark humour by AcePilot Ortegas in ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' when Captain Pike orders her to fly the Enterprise into the high-pressure outer layers of a brown dwarf.
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45	[[folder:Music]]
46	* The Bruce Dickinson song "Dive Dive Dive" is one long series of groan-inducing nautical {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for sex.
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49	[[folder:Video Games]]
50	* When the Wardog Squadron goes after ''Scinfaxi'' in ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', it initially performs an emergency submersion, but is forced to break surface and emergency-submerge again to fire its missiles. Eventually, Wardog squadron inflicts so much damage that when they try to dive ''again'', they can't: it would sink the ship.
51	* '''''DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!!!''''': The immortal introduction to a mission in ''VideoGame/FreeSpace2'' that starts with you playing chicken of a huge alien [[TheBattlestar Battlestar]] about to run you over.
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54	[[folder:Western Animation]]
55	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Ed says this [[EatTheCamera when he swallows his video camera through its view]].
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58	[[folder:Real Life]]
59	* Using this command in an urgent, panicky fashion used to be TruthInTelevision during the early years of submarine warfare, when the boats could only stay submerged for fairly short periods and travelled faster while on the surface. Being spotted by enemy aircraft was the boat's cue to commence a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_dive crash dive]]. [[TechnologyMarchesOn Improved hydrodynamics and battery technology]] allowed more modern diesel-electric submarines to stay submerged for hours at a time and make better speed at snorkel depth than on the surface, and nuclear-powered vessels theoretically only need to surface to resupply and rotate their crews.
60	** German U-boats used the word "Alarm!" to begin an emergency dive when an enemy aircraft was spotted. The movie ''Film/DasBoot'' famously got this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHOMmc9030 correct]] (slightly NSFW due to bare butt).
61	* U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines really do make this announcement when commencing a dive (though generally with less emotion, as it's a routine command).
62	* Averted in the Royal Navy.
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