Deep Flight - H.O.T. [Submersibles]

Deep Flight Merlin
DeepFlight Merlin is a new class of high-performance, “open cockpit” submersible.

Deep Flight Super Falcon
Deep Flight Super Falcon submersibles have replaced the experimental prototype Deep Flight Aviator/502 as the most advanced Deep Flight submersible offered for private use. HOT is currently building Deep Flight Falcon submersibles for private clients.

Deep Flight Challenger
The only full ocean depth (36,000 feet) submersible. Since 1995, HOT has quietly been designing and building this high performance craft for world-renowned adventurer, Steve Fossett.

Deep Flight Aviator
In February 20003, Hawkes Ocean Technologies operated the world's first underwater flight school in the Bahamas, and held the second course in May 2004 in the Sea of Cortez (Baja, Mexico). Hawkes Ocean Technologies is planning to run several pilot training courses.

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Deep Flight II
H.O.T. is currently looking for corporate sponsors to build Deep Flight II (DFII), the full ocean depth vehicle which Graham Hawkes plans to pilot 36,000 feet down to the bottom of our planet, the Mariana's Trench. DFII will access the two-thirds of our planet which is under deep water and inaccessible to man. H.O.T. calls the program Ocean Everest. H.O.T. is also looking for individual patrons who are interested in piloting DFII on its historic first flights down to the bottom of our own planet.

Deep Flight I
In 1996, H.O.T. completed Deep Flight I (DFI), an experimental, one-person submersible. DFI was built to prove the concept of underwater flight and has broken through to an entirely new class of submersible craft which operate on the principles of dynamic wing forces and flight control rather than the static system of ballast adjustment and vectored thrust of conventional submersibles.

Wet Flight
In 1997, H.O.T. built Wet Flight (WF), a one-person, high performance submersible designed specifically for underwater filming as a mobile camera platform. WF is available for lease to filmmakers, and was first used as a filming platform to film from the POV of a dolphin in the IMAX ridefilm, Dolphins: The Ride.

Deep Rover
Graham Hawkes designed Deep Rover in the mid-1980s and Deep Ocean Engineering built two 1-seat Deep Rovers and two 2-seat Deep Rovers. The 2-seat Deep Rovers were featured in James Cameron’s IMAX film, “Aliens of the Deep.

Mantis and Wasp
Graham Hawkes designed the Mantis and WASP Atmospheric Diving Suits which were built by OSEL (UK) and were used extensively for industrial work.