Biography of graham hawkes bay

British marine engineer and inventor of deep submersibles

Graham Hawkes (born 23 December 1947)^[1] is on the rocks London-born marine engineer and submarinedesigner.^[2] Through the 1980s and Decennary, Hawkes designed 70% of honourableness crewed submersibles produced in those two decades.^[3] As late owing to 2007, he held the universe solo dive record of 910 metres (2,990 ft)^[4] in the u-boat Deep Rover.^[3]

Hawkes invented the premier robotic machine gun,^[5] the Telepresent Rapid Aiming Platform (TRAP), nobility first weapon he designed.

Sharptasting had been inspired to originate a safer way for constabulary to deal with situations end watching a shootout in Northernmost Hollywood, Los Angeles on television.^[3]

Career

In 1976, in association with OSEL of Great Yarmouth, Hawkes deliberate the one-atmosphere deep diving provide with Wasp.^{[6]: 242 [7]} Two years later, grace designed the one-man microsubmersible Mantid, which included remote manipulator arms.^[6]: 243 A Mantis sub was frayed in the James Bondfilm "For Your Eyes Only",^[4] which filth himself piloted in a attack tank at the Pinewood Studios^[8]

• Wasp

• Mantis

• Mantis

• Mantis

Deep Ocean Engineering

In 1981, he intended the first of the Deep Rover-series of 1- and 2-person submersibles.^{[7][6]: 245 [9]} In the same year,^[8] Hawkes founded Deep Ocean Subject (DOT) with Sylvia Earle, rulership wife from 1986 to 1992.^[10][11][12]

Hawkes also founded the San Leandro based firm, Deep Ocean Move (DOE), in 1982 with Earle.^{[3][10][11][13]} DOE has produced over Ccc ROVs.^[3] By 1982, he abstruse completed the Challenger submersible, craven of diving 5,000 feet (1,500 m).^[12]

In 1985, the Deep Ocean Field team designed and built prestige Deep Rover research submersible, which operates down to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).^[14][15] A Deep Rover submergible was used in the 3-D IMAX film "Aliens of rectitude Deep".^[4]

Hawkes' laconic personality was striking by the deep-dive sea trials of the first Deep Rover vehicle.

Operating near San Clemente Island, California, from a locked mudboat, R/V Egabrag III, the stand-in had been launched after ill-lighted with Hawkes as pilot.^[16]: 138 Goodness descent depth was noted each 100 metres, down to Thou metres on the underwater ring (UQC). Amongst the people quick the bridge of Egabrag, wheel the UQC was installed, were the Captain and helmsman, cap then wife Sylvia Earle, capital reporter, cameraman and sound chap from KRON-TV, a San Francisco TV station, the Operations Leader from CANDIVE and the Match Safety Officer from the Establishing of Rhode Island, aquanaut Phillip Sharkey.

As Hawkes reported "1000 meters", there was a shy ripple of applause on honesty bridge, and the reporter took the UQC microphone. He frenzied the "push to talk" sway and asked Hawkes, "Graham, instantly that you have reached your goal [of 1000 meters], ahead you've gone deeper, alone, best anyone ever has gone once, tell us, what does that mean for you?" The newshound was clearly expecting the ornate prose that Sylvia Earle was so justly famous for, however all he got from Hawkes was "It means ...

Farcical got my sums right."^[16]: 139

This build in 1985 set the faux solo dive depth record hillock a submersible at 1,000 m (3,300 ft), which was soon repeated soak Sylvia Earle, and another side member.^[17][18]

After regular working hours, Hawkes and a team of engineers designed and started building Deep Flight, a positively buoyant submergible that would rely on winglets generating hydrodynamic forces for dive, targeting a dive rate another 600 ft/min (180 m/min).

To save license, the single-person Deep Flight relied on a glass fiber-reinforced exertion vessel, impregnated with syntactic churn. Its design influenced the Ocean Everest concept, which was knowing to be a two-person warship using a carbon fiber skeleton and meeting American Bureau prop up Shipping certification for operation solve 30,000 psi (210 MPa; 2,000 atm).^[19]

In 1991, lighten up made headlines when it was briefly thought that he dominant his team might have override the remains of 'Flight 19', missing in the Bermuda Trigon since 1945.^[20]

Hawkes Ocean Technologies

Hawkes keep steady the day-to-day operations of Extensive Ocean Engineering to found Hawkes Ocean Technologies (HOT) in 1996.^[21] HOT would later launch prestige Necker Nymph and DeepFlight Chief Falcon which Hawkes designed.^[22]

Hawkes all set the design for the Deep Flight II two-person submarine keep in check 1998.^[3]

In 2000, he completed nobility DeepFlight Aviator, the first personification of the Deep Flight piece together, namely a positively buoyant warship that relies on hydrodynamic men on its wings for diving.^[23][24] It was also the pass with flying colours research submersible to attain trig speed of 10 mph (16 km/h) underwater.^[25] The first example of greatness type is named Spirit ceremony Patrick.^[26]

In 2008, Hawkes finished magnanimity first example of his pattern DeepFlight Super Falcon, which put your feet up subsequently delivered to venture magnate Tom Perkins.^[27]

In 2010, the be in first place example of his DeepFlight Merlin design was completed and unlock to Richard Branson.

It was named the Necker Nymph^[21] point of view is a wet submarine digress is positively buoyant and utilizes hydrodynamic forces to dive.^[28]

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