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Portrait of Graham Hawkes

Graham Hawkes

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Graham Hawkes is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Hawkes designed 70% of the crewed submersibles produced in those two decades.

Quick Facts About Graham Hawkes

Notable works: Heat transfer and bubbling behaviour of fluidized beds

About Graham Hawkes

Graham Hawkes is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Hawkes designed 70% of the crewed submersibles produced in those two decades. As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of 910 metres (2,990 ft) in the submarine Deep Rover.

Quotes by Graham Hawkes

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

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Science is about filling in the details.

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Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

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'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.

Earth

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The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

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There's something just magical about flight. Period.

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I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

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Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Abyss

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The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's…

Ballet

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If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it…

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Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

Atomic bomb

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I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

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With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have.

Experiences

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Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you,

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One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious…

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Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey…

Beauty

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If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go…

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I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of…

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Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty.…

Alien

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The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

Beautiful

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