The deep ocean has always been the exclusive domain of a select group of brave pioneers – marine scientists, wreck divers, treasure salvors – utilizing highly customized, state of the art submersibles that require boatloads of technicians to operate. With the Deep Flight Super Falcon Hawkes Ocean Technologies in Richmond, California is trying to change all that.

Of all the Bond films through-out the years, one of the most memorable gadgets to emerge from Q-branch was the Lotus submarine-car from The Spy Who Loved Me, so, It’s only fitting that when Swiss design company Rinspeed set out to build a real-life version of the underwater-car, they based it on the Lotus Elise.