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Usage examples of dives.

There are very few harbours, and most of them are the mouths of rivers like the Dives, where the tides pour in and out and small ships can only go out on the ebb and come in again on the flood.

The garrison there had already been overrun, even though in that attack only two of the assaulting gliders found the target (the third came down seven miles away on the wrong bridge—a crossing over the Dives River).

Helplessly Morrissey watched the men being swept away toward the flooded Dives valley, gleaming in the moonlight off in the distance --the area the Germans had inundated as part of their defenses.

The plan called for paratroopers to dominate the heights northeast of Caen, hold the bridges over the Orne and the Caen Canal, demolish five more on the Dives River and thus block enemy forces, particularly panzers, from driving into the side of the invasion bridgehead.

Rommel’s antiparatroop precautions had paid off well: The waters and swamps of the flooded Dives valley were deathtraps.

Some pilots, caught in heavy cloud, mistook the mouth of the Dives for that of the Orne and let men out over a maze of marshes and swamps.

Between him and Varaville were not only the marshes but the Dives River itself.

He assembled them in the River Dives, not far to the east of Caen, and from there it is a hundred miles to Beachy Head and the same to the Isle of Wight.

The river Dives is in the Bay of the Seine, and to get out of the bay the fleet had to clear its eastern extremity, thirty miles away, which is Cap d'Antifer.

The course from the Dives to this headland, in modern terms, is 015° true, which is also precisely the course to Hastings.

In other words, when the fleet sailed out of the Dives, and for at least thirty miles beyond, the wind stood fair for England.

It is unthinkable that Duke William, after a month of waiting and praying for that very wind, sailed out of the Dives with any intention but to land in England.

It dives by filling ballast tanks with water and ascends by expelling the ballast.

Hell, I’ll bet we can get that gold out in two dives, three at the most.

Their dives had been superbly conducted—the French were unmatched at this sort of thing—and it could be argued that they didn’t loot the ship itself, bringing up objects only from the debris field that probably would be buried in a few years and lost forever.