Underwater Flight with Graham Hawkes

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Additional Links

• Deep Flight Submersibles

  Hawkes Ocean Technologies (HOT) designs and builds the world’s only winged (patented) submersibles, with over forty years experience in providing deep manned submersibles for exploration, adventure, recreation, film/television, science and industry.

• The Deep Sea - Journey to the Ocean Floor

  On January 23, 1960, the Trieste reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench and set a deep-diving record -- 35,810 feet. In fact, in the nearly 40 years since, no person has plunged to within 10,000 feet of the record.

• The Deep - Trieste Animation

  The Trieste, designed by Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, was a bathyscaphe, or "deep boat." Before bathyscaphes, the deepest-diving vessels were bathyspheres -- steel spheres lowered and raised by a cable attached to a mother ship overhead. The Trieste and the bathyscaphes that preceeded it, on the other hand, could descend and ascend on their own.

• Ocean Planet: HOW DEEP can they go?

  Ocean Planet, premiered at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History from April 1995 to April 1996, where it attracted nearly two million visitors. The Trieste was a feature subject of this exhibit.