Ryan Dacko

Ryan Dacko is a US Coast Guard veteran, who served as a search and rescue boat operator in the North Atlantic and on the US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star from the North Pole to Antarctica. He is a licensed underwater welder and worked as a professional commercial deep-sea diver. Ryan operated an independent film company where he received awards on film festival circuits and sold his award-winning documentary Plan 9 from Syracuse to Netflix in 2007. Ryan keeps a writing notebook on the dashboard of his line truck while working as a high-voltage line mechanic, living with his wife and three kids in Syracuse, New York. He is the host and creator of The Jaws Obsession podcast, ranked in the top 2.5% of all podcasts around the world by ListenNotes. The Book of Quint is his debut novel.