By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Dennis Bulin arrived in Zephyrhills as a skydiving bum in the late '70s. He quickly moved to a new hobby, scuba diving.
The inventor and entrepreneur combined those two passions into Zeagle Systems Inc., one of the leading scuba gear manufacturing companies and a pillar in the east Pasco business community. The company turned 32 this year.
An owner of several patents, Bulin turned his company into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. It's nothing short of a small business success story.
This week Bulin, 61, celebrated another milestone in a lesser-known chapter of his life. Against the worst of odds, he received a full pardon from President Barack Obama.
The rare decision from the president stemmed from a crime that happened more than two decades ago. Bulin was sentenced in March 1987 by a federal court in Alabama on a felony ...