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Founded
  
1995

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Hawkes Ocean Technologies is a marine engineering firm that specializes in consumer submarines, founded by Graham Hawkes. It is headquartered in San Francisco.

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Hawkes ocean technologies awarded autodesk inventor of the month may 2011


Hawkes Remotes

Hawkes Remotes is a subsidiary that builds ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), unmanned robotic submarines.

DeepFlight

Hawkes builds the DeepFlight range of submersibles, which uses hydrodynamic forces for diving, instead of ballast. The subs are all-electric. All or some of them have two pairs of wings like an airplane's, one pair front and the other pair rear, shorter than an airplane's and the other way up so they push the submarine down.

DeepFlight submersibles
  • DeepFlight I
  • Wet Flight
  • DeepFlight II
  • DeepFlight Aviator
  • DeepFlight Challenger
  • DeepFlight Super Falcon
  • DeepFlight Merlin
  • DeepFlight Dragon

    • Other submersibles

  • Deep Rover, a series of 1- and 2-seater subs that relied on conventional ballast systems for diving, designed by Hawkes, built by Deep Ocean Engineering. — Some of the 2-seaters were used on the documentary film "Aliens of the Deep". This submarine design set the former world solo dive depth record in 1985 at 1000m.
  • Deep Rover I
  • Deep Rover II — Deep Rover II was used in the Michael Crichton film "Sphere".
  • Mantis (submerisble), a one-man deep sea engineering sub designed by Hawkes, built by OSEL. — Mantis was used in the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only".
  • Wasp (diving suit), an atmospheric diving suit for deep sea engineering designed by Hawkes, built by OSEL.

    • References

    Hawkes Ocean Technologies Wikipedia
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