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World renowned engineer, Graham Hawkes, created the DeepFlight series of positively buoyant, winged submersibles. The first DeepFlight submersible was unveiled by Hawkes Ocean Technologies (HOT) in the late 1990s. HOT is now on its fifth generation winged submersible, and sold its most recent vehicles to venture capitalist Tom Perkins and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.
Additionally, HOT built the world’s deepest submersible, DeepFlight Challenger, for the late adventurer, Steve Fossett, who had planned to dive the sub to a record solo dive of 37,000 feet. HOT is currently the only organization capable of building submersibles to all depths of the oceans.
Prior to beginning the DeepFlight project, Graham Hawkes designed the Deep Rover submersibles which were featured in James Cameron’s 3-D IMAX film, “Aliens of the Deep.” Previously, Graham designed a significant percentage of manned vehicles used by science and industry, including the WASP and MANTIS Atmospheric Diving Suits, and many of the Remotely Operated Vehicles originally built by Deep Ocean Engineering.
HOT is currently designing and building submersibles and other deep sea technologies for private clients. The Company’s design and engineering office is located in the San Francisco Bay area.
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