Having your own personal submarine may sound like something out of a James Bond movie, but now you can dive deep without having a license to kill, thanks to a new submarine that lets you fly underwater.
"007" wowed the ladies with his personal car turned submarine, and now, you can explore the ocean with the DeepFlight Dragon.
It doesn’t turn into a car, but it does let you swim with the fishes.
Graham Hawkes, inventor: "By hook or by crow I was going to fly underwater and if no one understood that was their problem, it wasn’t mine."
Engineer Graham Hawkes invented the Dragon. He wanted to build a sub anyone could use.
Graham Hawkes: "There must be a better way to move underwater. Well, of course there is. You fly. And I started sketching out the prototype, right there and then."
The sub carries two people and can dive to 400-hundred feet. Six thrusters let you dive, roll and fly out of the water.
Graham Hawkes: "Wherever we are, we can just leap out of the water. There’s foam, there’s white water. You crash back and then it rights itself and you go, ‘Oh! That was fun. Lets do that again.’"
Of course, a high tech toy like the Dragon doesn’t come cheap. Asking price? $1.5 million. But when it comes to the scenery– you get what you pay for.
Graham Hawkes: "For the first time, we can move with these big animals kind of the way they do. We’re now having encounters where these big animals are moving in. The last time was a monstrous, big white shark. I looked straight in her eye and we were together for a while."
And if you’re going to swim with sharks… better to do it inside a submarine.
Graham Hawkes: "We are gonna go explore the ocean. We’re gonna get access. We have to. There’s no option. Until we do, we don’t understand the planet. If you wanna move with the sharks, if you wanna move with the whales, that’s what were building these machines for."
FOR MORE INFO:
DeepFlight Dragon
http://www.deepflight.com/dragon/