The phrase "a dive of" is not correct and does not appear to be a standard expression in written English.
It may be intended to describe a group of animals, but the correct term would depend on the context, such as "a dive of ducks" or "a dive of fish."
Example: "We spotted a dive of ducks landing on the lake."
Alternatives: "a group of" or "a flock of".
After the war Dr. Monod worked closely with the Belgian physicist Auguste Piccard, developing the world's first bathyscaph, or deep-sea diving machine, and in 1954, off the coast of Dakar, he made a dive of more than 4,000 feet.
He now lives with other government soldiers in a dive of a house littered with cigarette boxes and smelly clothes.
Still, Mevoli shot to the surface under his own power, after a dive of 3 minutes 38 seconds.
PAGE A5 Intruder Imperils Jetliner A man tried to seize control of a British airliner, sending the plane into a dive of thousands of feet before he was subdued.
The day before his attempt in the pool, Mr. Blaine was practicing in the ocean and told me he was headed down for a dive of 100 feet, so routine that he didn't bother doing the usual preparatory ritual: a slow, steady "breathe-up," followed by exhalations to purge carbon dioxide and then a final series of quick gulps of air called lung-packing.
Take the comical shenanigans of one big band in a dive of an expat bar, with all members clad in matching mustard-yellow tassled jackets and an old hippy guitarist who looks (and probably thinks) like he's still in the Swinging 60s, or a pastiche Cuban group belting out Santana covers to an empty room.
In competitive swimming, races begin with a dive off of a starting block, raised slightly above the surface of the pool.
"How much of a dive?" "As of the bell, you're up $27,000.
Everyone is still buzzing about George Clooney spottings during the filming of "The Descendants" at Tahiti Nui, a proud dive of a restaurant that captures what Hanalei is about.
Then, in the late summer of 1998, stocks took a dive because of the Russian debt crisis.
