This Underwater Airplane Flies Through The Ocean Unlike Any Submarine Before It

It all started with a little crab.

While conducting tests with a conventional submersible that crawled on the bottom of the sea, ocean engineer Graham Hawkes came nose to nose with a little crustacean that was poised to fight the underwater machine.

"I remember stopping and laughing," Hawkes told The Huffington Post. "But I thought, 'That crab has got it all wrong. These fish are moving in three dimensions. This guy is scurrying along the bottom. So am I. We've both got it wrong.'"

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