I’ve been an avid listener of ITConversations this past week and I came across a wonderful interview with Graham Hawkes, a deep-sea explorer, who’s attempting to build a manned submersible that they can take all the way down the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, a depth of about 35,000 feet. What’s cool about Hawkes’ approach is that he’s taken to redesigning the wheel so to speak, by ignoring previous submersible designs and building vehicles that look more airplane-like, with the latest one dubbed Deep Flight II:
Hawke’s underwater flying machines use the "same math that the Wright Brothers a hundred years ago [...] from a mathematical point of view, if you’re going at less than the speed of sound, you treat air as if it’s a fluid. It’s the same hydrodynamics, the same principles."