Zeagle Systems has been around since 1979, and making BC's in Florida since 1982. We still do.
(I've been selling them all these years, first as a retailer, and since 2000 as a sales rep.)
Can any other BC manufacturer say they can still build a BC here? None that I know of. Most companies can't make a damn thing, or repair it.
More importantly, Zeagle can fix anything right here in Florida, and PDQ!
We started just having the mediums and larges made offshore, because we sell huge amounts of those sizes. As Scott has said we can't keep up locally.
The Stiletto is the best quality single tank BC I've seen from Zeagle in a long time, and except for very early on, mostly it has been made overseas. It's now the best selling Zeagle BC!
If you think that American assembled products are made in America from scratch, you have been dillusional for a really long time.
I really worried about the public reaction to Zeagle being partially offshored. Simply because we were the only diving company left standing that hasn't done it solely, for better than a decade.
Can you hold Zeagle to a higher standard than every other company in the industry? Just because we held out longer than the rest?
It would be interesting to see how many US jobs are provided by each manufactuter in the diving business, proportionate to their sales.
My guess is that alphabet would start with a Z!
Chad