World renowned engineer, Graham Hawkes, created the Deep Flight series of winged submersibles. The first winged submersible was unveiled by Hawkes Ocean Technologies (H.O.T) in the late 1990's.

Prior to beginning the Deep Flight project, Graham Hawkes designed the Deep Rover submersibles which were featured in James Cameron’s 3D IMAX film, “Aliens of the Deep.” Previously, Graham designed a significant percentage of the manned and unmanned vehicles used by science and industry, including the WASP and MANTIS Atmospheric Diving Suits, and many of the Remotely Operated Vehicles originally built by Deep Ocean Engineering.