After graduating from Texas Tech
University in 1967, DeLoach began a 22-year public school
teaching career. He was active in Florida’s cave diving
community as a photographer, filmmaker and editor of
educational materials. During the same period he wrote
travel articles and personality profiles for several
national dive publications. In 1971 he published
Diving Guide to Underwater Florida,
which is currently in its 11th edition.
A
mutual friend introduced Ned to Paul Humann in the
mid-1980s. Two years later the pair reunited as co-editors
of Ocean Realm magazine. It was during this period that
the idea of producing a series of marine life
identification books designed for divers was born. Since
1989 the pair have compiled ten comprehensive guides for
tropical waters around the world including their popular
three-volume Reef Set for the Caribbean and Florida
regions. In 2000 Ned authored Reef Fish Behavior, a
compendium of what was currently known about the natural
history and behavior of fishes in the Tropical Western
Atlantic.
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