Actor Tyler Derench who plays Kit "Lights Out" Sterling trained for 9 months boxing and weight training to help prepare for the role. In the process he gained 17 lbs of muscle.
Director and Co-writer Brent Harvey went undercover to a gay bar to see if he could hide his sexual orientation to understand how Kit would feel in the reverse situation.
'Dive' was shot in 2 days which consists of 4 locations and 7 scenes total.
The boxing ring that was scheduled to be used for the shoot fell through just days before filming began, therefore the boxing scenes where shot in two locations. The scenes where the crowd can be seen and the corner scenes the actors stood on 3 folding tables that were covered with black cloth and a corner was built out of ropes a corner pad and a C stand.
Dive raised their budget through a Kickstarter campaign.