Some twenty years after my first suspicion that submersibles were stuck in a dreary chrysalis stage and needed to spread wings, we have achieved our long term goals. We have proven underwater flight with the world’s first full ocean depth capable (37,000 feet) submersible, Deep Flight Challenger, built for the late adventurer Steve Fossett. And, we have evolved the art of underwater flight for its own sake through four generations of pure fliers.

"While Deep Flight Challenger never made its record-breaking dive due to Steve Fossett's premature death in a plane crash, we have proven the technology for full ocean depth and are now working on introducing the next generation deep submersibles for industry and science. These submersibles are designed to be 1/10th the weight of conventional deep submersibles, with ten times the range, and at a fraction of the cost to build and operate."

For me, the butterfly has finally fully emerged… Deep Flight Super Falcon, the first production underwater flier. Super Falcon is years ahead of the experimental prototype Deep Flight Aviator (launched 2003) in terms of safety, comfort, and capabilities. We have sold the prototype, Deep Flight Aviator as a decommissioned vehicle to a group which is now operating the Aviator without support from Hawkes Ocean Technologies "We delivered the first Deep Flight Super Falcon in November 2008 to Tom Perkins, founder of the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers. This first Super Falcon now makes its home on Tom's sailing yacht, the S/Y Maltese Falcon (www.symaltesefalcon.com).

We launched the second Super Falcon May 13, 2009 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Among other things, we plan to use this Super Falcon as an Ambassador to the Oceans, and have launched a program, in conjunction with NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries, called VIP in the Sea. VIP in the Sea brings communicators (journalists, policymakers, artists, poets and musicians, etc) on the first sub-sea flights, with the hope that they will use these experiences to promote ocean exploration/conservation. The first VIP dives are taking place in July 2009 in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, CA.

The Super Falcon submersible is currently available for charter and as a limited production run.

For those of you not interested in owning the first underwater fliers, but want to be the first to experience underwater flight, we are offering our third Sub Sea Flight School in Summer 2009. Personally the ultimate dream for me was always to go fly the design, and building subs always was just a means to an end. Our Flight School lets us do that in great company.
Additionally, the Deep Flight Super Falcon submersibles are available for lease for marine archeology, film/television projects.