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a controlled fall dressed up as elegance, where bravery and physics share the same bruise.
means To plunge headfirst or steeply downward through water or air, or—more loosely—a shabby, disreputable establishment.
from From Old English dūfan and dyfan, to dip or sink, kin to 'deep' and 'dip' through the same drowning Germanic root. The 'seedy bar' sense is much later American slang, the popular notion being that such places were tucked in cellars you literally dove down into to reach—and the underworld feel suited the metaphor.
- deepest
- Free divers reach 700-plus feet on one breath
- reflex
- Cold water triggers a heart-slowing mammalian dive reflex
- degree
- Olympic dives are scored by difficulty multipliers
- slang
- A dive bar wears its grime like a badge
- birds
- Peregrine falcons dive over 240 mph
red bull cliff diving — annual competition where athletes jump from 27-28 meter cliffs in locations like acapulco and switzerland
silfra rift iceland — underwater dive between tectonic plates in thingvellir national park where you can touch north america and europe
mariana trench challenger deep — deepest ocean dive at 10,994 meters, reached by james cameron in 2012
blue hole belize — circular sinkhole dive spot 300 meters across with 124 meter depth, famous since jacques cousteau 1971