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* In ''Film/FlashGordon1980'' [[Creator/BrianBlessed PRINCE VULTAN]] gives the order "SQUADRON FORTYYYYY! ''DIIIVEE!''"

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* 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.

* '''''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.

* Both Shrek and Donkey say this to Dragon during an AerialCanyonChase scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' (the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie that plays at Ride/UniversalStudios).

* One of the reasons why ''Film/DasBoot'' is so great: it plays the trope straight then subverts it [[spoiler: when instead of being saved by diving, the submarine is endangered by the fact that it's sinking]].

* 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.

* In ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' [[Creator/BrianBlessed PRINCE VULTAN]] gives the order "SQUADRON FORTYYYYY! ''DIIIVEE!''"

* Averted in Alistair [=MacLean's=] novel ''Literature/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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'': "Hoover Dam! We're still in New York. Abort mission! Dive, dive!"

* German U-boats used the word "Alarm!" to begin an emergency dive.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8VIAVkj6Do Ed says this]] [[EatTheCamera when he swallows his video camera through its view]].

Also commonly inverted when a sub performs an "emergency blow" to quickly rise to the surface.

* 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 a submarine doing an "Emergency Blow" of its ballast tanks to send the submarine 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.

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* Averted in Alistair [=MacLean's=] novel ''Ice Station Zebra''. 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.

* Both Shrek and Donkey say this to Dragon during an AerialCanyonChase scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD''.

* In ''Film/MormingDeparture'', the ''Trojan'' dives in an attempt to avoid the SeaMine, with disastrous consequences.

* All submarine movies have a dive scene: ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'', ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'', ''Film/{{U571}}'', ''Film/USSAlabama'', ''Film/TheEnemyBelow'' ... ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' also features an Inversion of this trope, with a submarine doing an "Emergency Blow" of its ballast tanks to send the submarine 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.

* '''''DIVE!DIVE!DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!!!''''' The immortal introduction to a mission in ''VideoGame/FreeSpace2'' that starts with you in front of a huge alien [[TheBattlestar Battlestar]] about to run you over.

* When the Wardog Squadron goes after ''Scinfaxi'' in ''AceCombat 5'', 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.

* in ''Film/FlashGordon'' [[Creator/BrianBlessed PRINCE VULTAN]] gives the order "SQUADRON FORTYYYYY! ''DIIIVEE!''"

-->-- '''Ed''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy''

* in ''Film/FlashGordon'' [[{{BRIAN BLESSED}} PRINCE VULTAN]] gives the order "SQUADRON FORTYYYYY! ''DIIIVEE!''"

StockPhrases used on [[CoolBoat submarines]] or anything to do with something going down.

* In the "Health and Safety" episode of ''{{QI}}'', Ross Noble got this as a buzzer.