Dave Parker, Founder and President of Pelican™ Products, has been an avid Scuba diver since age 11 and has dived some of the most exotic spots in the world. Several times during his years of diving, Dave discovered that something he needed to make a dive complete, was simply not available. It dawned on him that "...if I need something like this, I'll bet all the other divers do too!" It was from this thought that in 1976 Pelican™ Products became a reality and Pelican's first product and patent, the Pelican Float, was that concept.