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The
History of the Perry Cubmarine
Perry Submarine Builders, Inc
designed and built the Cubmarine
in the beginning of the 1960s.
Cubmarine was
a two-person, battery powered
submersible first leased by Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
in 1962.
In addition, Cubmarine
was presumably the first sub to
explore Woods Hole Passage.
During 1962-1965 Perry developed the Cubmarine
used by the US Navy to recover
ordnance on the Pacific
Range
and an H-Bomb lost off the coast of
Spain in January of
1966.
John Perry's
interest in the ocean materialized in
1957 with his first plywood and
fiberglass underwater vehicle which
led to the 1960 formation of the first
of the Perry underwater companies, Perry
Submarine Builders, Inc. As this
time period coincided with the
beginning of a rapid development of
the tools and techniques that would
take both man and machine underwater, Perry
quickly became a viable leader in the subsea
industry. Perry Inc has
a very interesting history of building
many unique submersibles- they now
build ROV systems
under the name of Perry Tritech,
Inc, since 1990.
About
John Perry
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Mr. John H. Perry, Jr., a native
of Seattle, Washington, was born
on January 2, 1917. He graduated
from Hotchkiss in 1935, Yale in
1939, and attended the Harvard
School of Business
Administration. During World War
II he served as a pilot in both
the Anti-Submarine Service and
the Air Transport Command. |
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Mr. Perry was Chairman, President and
principal shareholder of Perry
Publications, Inc., which operated 28
newspapers, as well as magazine
publishing and printing operations. He
is widely recognized for his
pioneering introduction of computers
for automated newspaper production in
the composing room. This was a
forerunner to today's techniques in
high-speed newspaper production.
John H. Perry, Jr. was an early
predictor of the ending of the
"fossil fuel age" and the
beginning of the "hydrogen
age." Over 30 years ago, he began
devoting time and significant
financial resources to the development
of renewable energy technologies and a
global energy plan.
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He established
research facilities in South Florida
and on his private island in the
Bahamas, testing Photovoltaics,
windmills and fuel cells. His
companies built the underwater
astronaut/scientist training facility
off the Bahamas, known as
"Hydro-Lab." The Hydro-Lab
was recognized for many underwater
"firsts", including the dry
transfer of men from a submarine (also
Perry built). |
| He was on President
Johnson's U.S. Commission on Marine
Sciences, Engineering and Resources. |
His efforts resulted in the creation
of a patented system that makes
methanol from seawater and he launched
the first submarine powered
exclusively by a fuel cell power
system. His numerous companies,
including Perry Oceanographics and The
Perry Group, hold the patents on many
of the first practical applications of
fuel cell technology and were
long-standing suppliers of products to
branches of the U.S. military and
NASA. Today the organization is known as
the "Perry
Institute for Marine Science"
with offices and facilities in
South Florida and the Bahamas.
Mr. Perry founded Energy Partners in
1990 and served as chairman of the
board. Energy Partners, Inc. was a
developer and manufacturer of clean,
renewable and efficient power systems.
In 1991, Energy Partners, Inc. was
purchased by Teledyne Energy Systems,
Inc. In 1993, Mr. Perry developed a
zero emission vehicle, known as
"The Green Car:", a
prototype, PEM fuel cell/battery
hybrid electric vehicle developed to
demonstrate the feasibility of PEM
fuel cells for transportation. His
Genesis Zero Emission Transporter, was
a concept vehicle designed to address
a market niche consisting of limited
power electric utility and passenger
vehicles.
Mr. Perry had a long and distinguished
career with a common thread always
present; he consistently dedicated his
resources and efforts towards
activities and projects that have
value on a human scale as well as a
business scale. He was a man undaunted
by things that seem to be impossible.
All of these things and more have been
the result of the works of John
Holliday Perry, Jr., a man whose
varied accomplishments have been and
will continue to be of huge benefit to
mankind, in this country and
elsewhere, today -- and tomorrow.
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