Graham Hawkes Quotes

• Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

  Graham Hawkes

  Air, Flying, Underwater

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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.

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  Sound, Hull, Gone

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• The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

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  Crazy, Ocean, Crazy Things

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• The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

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  Beautiful, Ocean, Earth

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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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  Ocean, Thinking, People

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• Earth is a silly name for this planet.

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  Silly, Names, Earth

  "Richard Branson's 'Underwater Plane' Is 1st of Its Kind" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2010.

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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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  Ocean, People, Care

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• The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

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  Ocean, Technology, Games

  "Winged sub almost ready to go very deep" by Tom Stienstra, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2008.

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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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  Religious, Justice, Darkness

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• Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

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  Flight, Periods

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• Science is about filling in the details.

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  Details, Filling In, Filling

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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.

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  Harder, Smarter

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• I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

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  Computer, Grew Up, Grew

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