Hi, my name is Wolf. Since high school (I'm 73 now) I have been using the tremolo bar on my Strats. Not for those deep sea dives, but to create the guitar sound that Hank B. Marvin of The Shadows in England created many years ago. Hits like "Apache", "Atlantis", "Wonderful Land" and many other tunes were big in the 60's and are still played in Europe. I myself had a guitar hit in 1982 with my "Lonely Seagull". Hank and I both use the whammy bar mainly for tremolo and occasional 'soft' dives. The "Shadows" sound is created with two main ingredients: the Whammy bar and the Echo/Delay unit. If you'd like to hear what I'm talking about, look up 'The Shadows' in YouTube and check out one of the tunes I mentioned. One of my favorites to play myself is "Going home" by Marc Knopfler of the Dire Strait, but Hank plays it a little better