Graham Hawkes
Graham Hawkes
Graham Hawkes is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Hawkes designed 70% of the manned submersibles produced in those two decades. As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of 3,000 feet in the submarine Deep Rover...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth23 December 1947
ocean people care
Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.
ocean thinking people
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
ocean technology games
The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.
computer grew grew-up
I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.
loves underwater
Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
depends endgame foot future knowledge near nowhere planet technology
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.
bulk life lives peaceful slow
The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.
longer plain worked
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
people
With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have.
model next straight t time tinkering
If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.