Graham Hawkes Introduces Underwater Flight

Google Tech Talk
March 23, 2010

ABSTRACT

Graham Hawkes Introduces Underwater Flight: State-of-the-Art Vehicles to Explore/Survey the Unknown Territory of our Ocean Planet

Presented by Graham Hawkes.

Renowned ocean engineer Graham Hawkes has achieved his goal of creating a new generation of lightweight, cost-effective manned and remotely operated craft, including the world's only full ocean depth manned vehicle, which will open the oceans to all depths for exploration, science, and industry.

The Deep Flight project started in the late 1980s as a program to provide cost-effective vehicles for deep ocean access. Graham Hawkes decided that to move efficiently through the 3-dimensional space of the ocean territories, future undersea craft had to sprout wings (fins) and fly. Future craft would also have to be one-tenth the weight of conventional vehicles, thus eliminating the need for a costly mothership.

Tearing up everything he knew about submersibles, Hawkes made the same transition sub-sea that the Wright Brothers did in air, moving from ballooning to an ultra-lightweight, more controllable and flexible design of fixed wing craft. Since that time, Hawkes has built five generations of Deep Flight submersibles, including the worlds only full ocean depth capable manned vehicle for the late adventurer Steve Fossett; a sleek underwater flier for venture capitalist, Tom Perkins; and a new class of open cockpit craft for entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson.

Graham Hawkes, an internationally renowned ocean engineer/inventor, has been responsible for the design of a significant percentage of all manned (and more than 300 remote) underwater vehicles built for research or industry worldwide, including the Wasp and Mantis Atmospheric Diving Suits, the Deep Rover research submersibles which were recently featured in the James Cameron 3-D Imax film, Aliens of the Deep, and the Deep Flight series of winged submersibles.

Mr. Hawkes has founded six high technology companies, including Hawkes Ocean Technologies which is the only organization in the world that has developed technology to access all depths of the oceans. Mr. Hawkes currently holds the world record for the deepest solo dive (3,000 feet), which he achieved while test piloting his Deep Rover submersible. He also claims to have killed James Bond in the film For Your Eyes Only.

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[anthonzi]

31:00 Steve sounded like an asshole.

[anthonzi]

I think the passing observer might also be put off by the fact that he isn't very articulate and makes drastic condemnations without any preceding context.

[abelyssah]

@anthonzi -Agreed , but still the idea is the disease of consumption . earth is a living organism with intelligence .'man wants to be an unaccountable free loader sometimes -here is one example of not being happy with the design of his feet!:D

[roggerfrogger2]

Excellent lecture, better than anything i've had from my university all year! I think I should have taken a different course.

[stephenmneedham]

This sound problem happens in a lot of the talks. If they'd just put 2 microphones on the podium...

[stephenmneedham]

If they'd just put 2 microphones on the podium. This sound problem happens in a lot of the talks. For all their intelligence Google can't see the simple? well hear it. I'm sure they'll find a very expensive solution so no worries... LOL.

[stephenmneedham]

If they'd just put 2 microphones on the podium. This sound problem happens in a lot of the talks. For all their intelligence Google can't see the simple?

[puckie2008]

Exciting world full of possibilities. The guy knows his way around. He doesn'r care about sounding boring while expressing his disappointment about the unwise huge expenses by the USA Navy among the others.

The audio was not very good. Google should record the Google Tech Talks with a better audio and video equipment ;-). Otherwise, thanks, Google!!!

[tobigforyou]

51:22 WOW!

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