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28 MTR April 2011 Flying through the Water with the Greatest of Ease with Graham Hawkes Mad Scientist. Not Really; Goof-off obsessed with subsea flight. Partially; Inventor, Engineer, Visionary who seeks open access to the seas: Absolutely! By Greg Trauthwein, Editor G raham Hawkes needs no introduction to the subsea community, as he has made a profes- sion of headline-grabbing innovations that have helped to revolutionize the capabilities of manned submersibles since the late 1970s, when he co- founded Offshore Systems Engineering (OSEL) in England, where he designed and managed the manufac- turing of the atmospheric diving systems, the Wasp and Mantis. Hawkes designed the Deep Rover submersibles which were featured in James Cameron's 3-D IMAX film, "Aliens of the Deep," and he designed a significant per- centage of manned vehicles used by science and industry, and additionally, many of the Remotely Operated Vehicles originally built by Deep Ocean Engineering, a company co-founded with Dr. Sylvia Earle. His passion, though, has traditionally been subsea "flight," a passion which led to the invention and contin- ued refinement of the Deep Flight series of winged sub- mersibles. Throughout his career, Hawkes has exhibited a knack for pushing the boundaries of subsea vehicle capa- bilities. Today, Hawkes, 63, is still pushing the boundaries of common acceptance, introducing to the market Hawkes Remotes Inc. (HRI), a pure commercial endeav- or and a company with an initial product lineup consist- ing of a family of three ROVs which incorporates new proprietary fiber-optic tether technology and high ener- gy-density batteries to enable range, depth, and deploy- ment capabilities well beyond those of current-generation ROVs. Hawkes Remotes Inc. (HRI) Hawkes is a master at finding and utilizing the best
