Graham Hawkes is a submarine designer and inventor, and was almost singlehandedly responsible for the boom in undersea exploration vehicles during the 1980s and 1990s. He collaborated with Sylvia Earle on many of the deep dives that were achieved in his submarines. If you’ve watched the James Cameron film Aliens of the Deep, you’ve seen some of Hawkes’s submarines in action. He also built and piloted the submarine in the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.
His company is called DeepFlight, and in this TED talk he describes the kinds of vessels that he builds. They are mash ups of aircraft and submarines,
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