Speaker: Joe Hughes

TOPIC: HISTORY OF HYDRO PRODUCTS. In the ’60s and ’70s San Diego became a hotbed of research and development in the various marine technologies. Scripps Institution of Oceanography was flourishing. The Navy laboratories were doing well in advanced electronic systems and ocean technology of all sorts. Both offshore oil and deep ocean mining were booming. And there were developmental activities related to submarine warfare and naval special warfare. We saw an array of small companies spring up around the San Diego area, both from people leaving these government activities and starting businesses, and from people leaving the local aerospace companies and starting companies to bring their aerospace skills to meet ocean technology requirements. With the blossoming of the offshore oil industry and a promising start at deep ocean mining, many of these small companies flourished and grew to respectable size. With the disappearance of the ocean mining industry, and the retrenchment of the offshore oil industry in the early ’80s, many of these young companies went away or were acquired by larger companies. But San Diego has continued to maintain a basic infrastructure of smaller high-tech companies serving the needs of the various ocean industries. This paper describes the activities of a company called Hydro Products during this period.

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