"Dive" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic.

"[3] Journalist Gillian G. Garr theorized that had "Dive" not been included on the "Sliver" single, it may have been re-recorded for the band's September 1991 release Nevermind, since it predicted that album's sound with its fusion of punk, metal and pop.

[4] Author Chuck Crisafulli described the song as having the "thick, dirty guitar, menacing bass and vocals of intermediate agony" that characterized the still-new "grunge" genre at the time.

Reviewing Incesticide for Entertainment Weekly in December 1992, David Browne described "Dive" as "a 1988 pile driver" that "embodies everything wonderful about Nirvana: the one-two-three punch of thudding guitar riffs, rubbery bass lines (Krist Novoselic is the band’s unheralded linchpin), and Cobain’s lozenge-craving roar fighting to be heard through layers of boredom and rage, which all combine to form something both cathartic and moving.

[8][9] In a July 2018 retrospective review of Incesticide, Pitchfork's Jenn Pelly wrote that "in the crests and punches and crashes of 'Dive,' Cobain shows all the contours and shapes he could carve with his voice," and that "like the best of Nirvana, 'Dive' validates pain while tacitly pulling you out from beneath it, depressive and buoyant in each breath, making the sunken feeling soar.