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Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
Graham Hawkes
Everyone is thrilled to soar and submerged flight is even more exhilarating than airborne as there are sights around you.
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Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
Graham Hawkes
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The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.
Graham Hawkes
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The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.
Graham Hawkes
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Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
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Earth is a silly name for this planet.
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Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.
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The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.
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One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
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Theres something just magical about flight. Period.
Graham Hawkes
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Science is about filling in the details.
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I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
Graham Hawkes
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I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.
Graham Hawkes
