Hawkes Ocean Technologies is a marine engineering

Naval architecture

Naval architecture is an engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures. Naval architecture involves basic and applied research, design, development, design evaluation and calculations during all stages of the life of a...

 firm that specializes in consumer submarines, founded by Graham Hawkes

Graham Hawkes

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

. It is headquartered in San Francisco.

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.

DeepFlight submersibles

• DeepFlight I

DeepFlight I was sponsored by TV firms, and serve as technology testbed for DeepFlight II.

• Wet Flight

Wet Flight was used in filming of "Dolphins: The Ride"/

• DeepFlight II

DeepFlight II was designed on AutoCAD.

• DeepFlight Aviator

With an operational depth of 1500ft, the Aviator is the first of its kind positively-buoyant submersible. It relies solely on hydrodynamic forces to dive. It was designed completely on a computer.

• DeepFlight Challenger

The Challenger was designed for Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

James Stephen Fossett was an American commodities trader, businessman, and adventurer. Fossett is the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon...

's attempt at the world's deepest point, Challenger Deep

Challenger Deep

The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the oceans, with a depth of to by direct measurement from submersibles, and slightly more by sonar bathymetry . It is located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group...

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• DeepFlight Super Falcon
  DeepFlight Super Falcon
  The DeepFlight Super Falcon is a personal submarine designed by Graham Hawkes, a former civilian ocean engineer. It was hoped that the technology used in this submersible would allow travel to the deepest parts of the ocean.- Development :...
  
  

The SuperFalcon is much more maneuverable than all subs preceding it. Unlike most subs, it does not have a circular pressure hull. The first example was built for Tom Perkins, and launched in 2008. At the time of launch, it was the most advanced personal submarine in the world.

• DeepFlight Merlin
  DeepFlight Merlin
  DeepFlight Merlin is a personal submersible by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, part of the DeepFlight line of submersibles. The positively buoyant "aero submarine" was designed by Graham Hawkes...
  
  

The initial example is called Necker Nymph

Necker Nymph

Necker Nymph is an open-cockpit submersible vehicle that relies on hydrodynamic forces for anti-lift force, and is positively buoyant. It is the initial example of the DeepFlight Merlin class of submersibles manufactured by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, based on the DeepFlight submersible technology...

 and run by Virgin Limited Edition

Virgin Limited Edition

Virgin Limited Edition, part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group of business ventures, is a collection of vacation retreats around the world.The sites are selected for their prime locations and attractive surroundings and together comprise a collection of some of the world’s prime real estate.-...

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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
  Aliens of the Deep
  Aliens of the Deep is a 2005 documentary film, directed in part by James Cameron alongside fellow cameraman Steven Quale, who would later go on to direct Final Destination 5 six years later, and filmed in the IMAX 3D format. It was produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures...
  
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  • Deep Rover I
  • Deep Rover II — Deep Rover II was used in the Michael Crichton film "Sphere"
    Sphere (film)
    Sphere is a 1998 science fiction psychological thriller film, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sphere was based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and The Lost World...
    
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• Mantis (submerisble), a one-man deep sea engineering sub designed by Hawkes, built by OSEL
  Ösel
  Ösel may refer to:* The Swedish and German name for Saaremaa, Estonia* Ösel - the Yoga of the Clear Light* Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche - Spanish-born Tibetan Buddhist and tulku*Ösel Tendzin, an American-born Tibetan Buddhist...
  
  . — Mantis was used in the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only
  For Your Eyes Only (film)
  For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director in three other Bond films. The screenplay by Richard Maibaum...
  
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• Wasp (diving suit), an atmospheric diving suit for deep sea engineering designed by Hawkes, built by OSEL
  Ösel
  Ösel may refer to:* The Swedish and German name for Saaremaa, Estonia* Ösel - the Yoga of the Clear Light* Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche - Spanish-born Tibetan Buddhist and tulku*Ösel Tendzin, an American-born Tibetan Buddhist...
  
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External links

• Hawkes Ocean Technologies DeepFlight Submersibles