Graham Hawkes

Graham Hawkes (left) with physicist David Callaway

Graham Hawkes (born 23 December 1947)[1] is a London-born marine engineer and submarine designer.[2] Through the 1980s and 1990s, Hawkes designed 70% of the crewed submersibles produced in those two decades.[3] As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of 910 metres (2,990 ft)[4] in the submarine Deep Rover.[3]

Hawkes invented the first robotic machine gun,[5] the Telepresent Rapid Aiming Platform (TRAP), the first weapon he designed. He had been inspired to create a safer way for police to deal with situations after watching a shootout in North Hollywood, Los Angeles on television.[3]

  1. ^ "Graham Hawkes Is Racing To Ocean's Bottom". Times-News. NYT Regional Newspapers. 5 September 1993.
  2. ^ Day, Peter (7 September 2010). "'Flying' submarines plumb hidden depths". BBC News. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  3. ^ a b c Davis, Lisa (10 June 1998). "36,000 Feet Under the Sea". SF Weekly. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  4. ^ Wright, A. (2007). "Taking Next-Generation Submersibles to New Depths". ANSYS Advantage. Vol. 1, no. 1. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  5. ^ "The Idea Man: Lethal robots? Who thinks up this stuff? Graham Hawkes, that's who". Popular Science. May 2005. p. 34.