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
air flying underwater
Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you,
details filling-in filling
Science is about filling in the details.
religious justice darkness
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
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.
beautiful ocean earth
The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.
flight periods
Theres something just magical about flight. Period.
ocean thinking people
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
silly names earth
Earth is a silly name for this planet.
gone bombs littles
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
harder smarter
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
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.
alien fabulous filled junk ladies life lucrative mostly nearly planetary promised sterile
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.