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Election day is two weeks away and I'm strongly in support of John Bouvier's election to the Southampton Town Trustee Board. An engineer, John possess a unique career path that uniquely suits him for the Trustee position. Check this out:

He attended dive school and worked as commercial diver and saturation diver in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. He attended University intending to become a marine veterinarian and studied Zoology for two years, but an introduction to a man who designed submersibles changed all that. He switched to engineering and joined Deep Ocean Engineering Inc. to build research submersibles and remotely operated subsea vehicles. He specialized in subsea robotics. He worked with Al Giddings, a noted cinematographer, who filmed such noteworthy films as "Jaws" and "The Abyss." He had purchased a ship to outfit like the Calypso of Jacques Cousteau fame. I was a member of the team that refit the 220′ ship as a research vessel.

After completing his studies, he joined Grumman Aerospace and worked at the Flight Test facility at Calverton with the Naval Weapons Systems Laboratory. He transferred to the Grumman Space Station Division and moved to Washington D.C. as the Lead Robotics Engineer under contract to NASA. His love of the ocean never left, so when he was offered an opportunity to work for Oceaneering International as General Manager for their new Division, Oceaneering Space Systems, he took it. As part of the Space Station contract partners, his group advised NASA on the application of subsea operations on Space Station. 

He serves the Board of the CAC-West, a local Civic Organization that deals with, among other things, environmental issues related to irresponsible practices, groundwater contamination and wetlands protection. He is also a member of the SPAT Program with the Cornell Marine Learning Center, http://ccesuffolk.org/aquaculture/ where he uses aquaculture techniques to raise oysters, clams and scallops.

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Seems qualified, don't you think.

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