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Graham Hawkes, the Glossary

Graham Hawkes (born 23 December 1947) is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer.^[1]

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Aliens of the Deep

Aliens of the Deep is a 2005 American documentary film directed in part by James Cameron alongside fellow cameraman and friend Steven Quale, and filmed in the IMAX 3D format.

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American Bureau of Shipping

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is an American maritime classification society established in 1862.

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An aquanaut is any person who remains underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as saturation.

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Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where, according to an urban legend, a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.

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DeepFlight Merlin

DeepFlight Merlin is a personal submarine by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, part of the DeepFlight line of submersibles.

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DeepFlight Super Falcon

The DeepFlight Super Falcon is a personal submarine designed by Graham Hawkes, a former civilian ocean engineer.

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Designer

A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans.

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Diving safety officer

Diving safety officer (DSO) is the title held by the person who administers a United States university's research diving safety program.

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For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 spy film directed by John Glen (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Albert R. Broccoli.

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Hawkes Ocean Technologies

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

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IMAX

IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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KRON-TV

KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's outlet for The CW.

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List of James Bond films

James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Marine engineering

Marine engineering is the engineering of boats, ships, submarines, and any other marine vessel.

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Necker Nymph

The Necker Nymph is a submersible vehicle operated by Virgin Aquatic from the 32-metre yacht Necker Belle, which is based at the Virgin Limited Edition resort Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.

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North Hollywood shootout

The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr.

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North Hollywood, Los Angeles

North Hollywood is a Los Angeles, California neighborhood, located in the San Fernando Valley.

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Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.

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San Clemente Island

San Clemente Island (Tongva: Kinkipar; Spanish: Isla de San Clemente) is the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California.

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San Leandro, California

San Leandro (Spanish for "St. Leander") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer.

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Syntactic foam

Syntactic foams are composite materials synthesized by filling a metal, polymer, cementitious or ceramic matrix with hollow spheres called microballoons or cenospheres or non-hollow spheres (e.g. perlite) as aggregates.

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