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John has served as NACD Training Director, NACD BOD member, Exploration & Survey Chairman and Suwannee River Valley NACD Regional Safety Officer. He has explored regions of Northern Mexico, Belize, Venezuela, and the Yucatan of Mexico. Member of 1992 Nohoch Nah Chich Exploration Team re-establishing the world record for longest/largest explored and surveyed cave system in the world. Recipient Of the Gold Wakulla Award. During July of 1991, John was escorted by private jet to Corro, Venezuela and was involved in the first organized rescue of a scuba diver lost in an underwater cave in the mountain region of Sierra de San Luis in the State of Falcon. Assumed drowned, the diver was found alive in an air chamber 300 feet back after 36 hours being reported missing. This event was featured in the Florida Magazine of the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, NAUI Sources periodical, Scuba Times, and the September 1992 issue of Readers Digest magazine, and the television program Rescue 911.
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JOHN ORLOWSKI has been diving since 1965 while
living in Pittsburgh, Pa. and has been teaching since 1988 as an "active" Cave
Diving Instructor and Instructor Trainer. John's sincere interest in cave diving
motivated him to move to North Florida to be closer to the CAVES. His enthusiasm
for sharing his knowledge about cave diving has allowed John to provide a
friendly and dependable relationship with his students and peers.
SHELLEY ORLOWSKI has been diving since 1992. Always an
exception to the rule, by the time Shelley had completed 10 open water dives,
she had logged over 200 cave dives and has never looked back. Now with over
2,000 cave dives, she has been teaching Technical and Cavern courses since 1994,
Cave courses since 1995, Trimix courses since 1996 and Rebreather courses since
1997. Her involvement in the cave diving community and instructional process has
benefited many divers and students over the years.