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Dive Florida<br />
America’s Underwater Paradise<br />
Ned DeLoach’s<br />
Diving Guide to Underwater Florida<br />
The most complete diving information available with 50 maps and<br />
more than 600 superb diving locations. The bible of Florida Diving<br />
for more than 35 years, now in an expanded 11th Edition.<br />
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networking with other former<br />
Cousteau team members.<br />
“I wanted to pick up their lost<br />
legacy,” he explains. “Their stories<br />
and their gear are worth preserving,<br />
and I wanted to document the<br />
people who built, tested and used<br />
this gear.”<br />
A product development<br />
specialist by trade, Ryan recently<br />
moved to Seattle where he<br />
operates flashbackscuba.com.<br />
The concept behind flashback is<br />
to make this equipment available<br />
to the public. “I don’t just want<br />
to put this stuff in a closet or a<br />
display case,” he says. “I want to<br />
get it out and show it to people…<br />
to actually dive with it.”<br />
Among his working collection<br />
are custom Italian-made tanks,<br />
French regulators, custom fins and<br />
one of the team’s silver suits, which<br />
he carefully coats with sunscreen<br />
before each use to preserve its<br />
color. Other prized acquisitions<br />
include one of Jacques’s personal<br />
wetsuits, which has the initials<br />
JYC penned into the collar. “It was<br />
rotting in a garage in Vancouver<br />
when I found it,” Ryan says. “It’s a<br />
piece of history.”<br />
www.underwaterjournal.com June/July 2007
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