Troy Hurtubise

Quick Facts

Full Name	Troy Hurtubise
Occupation	Inventor
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1963(1963-11-23)
Age	61
Date Of Death	June 17, 2018, Ontario 17, Canada
Birthplace	Hamilton
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Troy Hurtubise Biography

Troy Hurtubise is one of the most popular and richest Inventor who was born on November 23, 1963 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Hurtubise built a metal suit for protection from grizzly bears; recorded as a National Film Board of Canada documentary and called Project Grizzly, in which Hurtubise tested the capabilities of the suit using himself as the test subject. This resulted in his Ig Nobel Prize for Safety Engineering in 1998. The documentary focuses on version six of the suit (“Ursa Mark VI”), and also includes clips of the previous versions being tested.

Firepaste [see, also, Starlite] is an intumescent white paste that, when dry, is flame and heat resistant. It has a consistency and texture similar to clay when wet and dries into a gray ceramic material which resembles concrete. The impetus for firepaste came from a failed fire test with the Ursus Mark VII where the metal exoskeleton heated up, popped the air bags and left Hurtubise with numerous burns. Like Project Grizzly, Hurtubise has tested the material on himself. For a demonstration for the media and military in summer 2004, he made a thin mask of the material, put it over his face, and aimed a specialized blowtorch at thousands of degrees directly at the mask. The temperature was intentionally much hotter than the temperatures reached by the Space Shuttle on reentry. A thermometer located between his face and the mask measured no appreciable temperature change below the mask after nearly ten minutes, and the integrity of the material was not compromised.

Troy Hurtubise Net Worth

Troy Hurtubise is one of the richest Inventor from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Troy Hurtubise 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Troy James Hurtubise (November 23, 1963 – June 17, 2018) was a Canadian inventor and conservationist, noted for self-testing his often bizarre creations. These inventions included various ray generators, firepaste (an ablative heatproofing material), the Ursus personal armor suit and the Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor.

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Who is Troy Hurtubise Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Vitali Ranked on the list of most popular Inventor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Troy Hurtubise celebrates birthday on November 23 of every year.

Is Project Grizzly real?

Project Grizzly is a 1996 documentary about Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise. The film follows Hurtubise’s obsession with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close ever since surviving an early encounter with such a bear.

Who invented the bear suit?

This article was published more than 3 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Troy Hurtubise is pictured with a suit of armour impervious to grizzly bears in 1998.

Is there a bear proof suit?

Hurtubise built a metal suit for protection from grizzly bears ; recorded as a National Film Board of Canada documentary and called Project Grizzly, in which Hurtubise tested the capabilities of the suit using himself as the test subject. This resulted in his Ig Nobel Prize for Safety Engineering in 1998.

What is the bear suit made of?

He scrounged scrap yards, dumps, whatever to get the gear for the Robocop-like suit he called the “Ursus Mark VI.” The suit was made out of metal, air bags, material of his own creation and a heaping supply of duct tape. To test it out, the Hamilton native devised DIY tests.