Graham Hawkes can't quite put words to the feeling. It's like jumping off a cliff, but more peaceful. It is like sinking, but more purposeful. It is like flying but exactly the opposite.
"Fun is an inadequate word for playing with technology the Navy doesn't have in a part of the world where few people can go," Hawkes explains to HuffPost Travel, somehow managing to sound more apologetic for being more verklempt than boastful about the fact that he has an underwater plane.
Graham Hawkes has an underwater plane. That is both astounding and old news. After decades building the majority of submersibles used in scientific and military missions, Hawkes and his company DeepFlight began producing underwater planes -- buoyant vehicles that use hydrodynamics in much the way airplanes use the Bernoulli Principle effect -- in the 1990s. It was astonishing at the time and it still is, but what might be more exciting is that Hawkes wants tourists to join him.
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