John S. Foster modeling an early design of the Hugh Bradner wet suit created at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Undersea divers would still be shivering and facing a high risk for hypothermia if it weren’t for Hugh Bradner, inventor of the first wetsuit. Bradner, a renowned physicist and professor emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography died May 5, 2008, in San Diego after a prolonged illness. He was 92.
He was 92.
Aha! So the key to longevity is wearing neoprene!
We should all be so lucky, altho a long illness is no fun.
if yea make it past 80 the only tragedy is if your death is long and/or painful or if you never did what you wanted to in life.
this guy should be worshiped by surfers and water folk everywhere on the plante!!! statues, stamps , books and that hero worship stuff----God Speed Mr Bradner!!!
I thought you were going to say Jack O’neill. But without this guy I could of been freezing my nuts off…