Scuba World

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John Shimkoski was born in South Florida and settled here in Orlando, where his wife Heidi was born, after spending over 25 years in the US Army. John learned to dive in the late 1960s while on a summer vacation to Freeport, Grand Bahamas. In 1976, he took a formal PADI training certification course. John was trained as a US Army Special Forces combat diver in 1979 and continued to expand his diving knowledge by becoming a diving supervisor, diving medical technician and diving instructor in the US Army Special Forces diving community. He also instructed scuba diving for the YMCA and currently is a NAUI instructor trainer.Providing you with the right training, gear, and dive locations is our part in making your dive experience what it was meant to be."Scuba World’s roots in this community go all the way back to the days when sporting good stores were the only place to find swim and scuba (self contained underwater breathing apparatus) equipment. Ed Peasley was the owner of Edgewood Sports Center (later Jim Hollis´ Scuba World) located at Winter Park Road and Corrine Drive here in Orlando. Ed was one of the first businessmen to cater to the new sport of scuba diving in the 1950s and ‘60s. In the early years of scuba diving there was very little industry policing of the sport, and Ed did something that you would never see today, a coin operated air fill station, truly ahead of his time for diver convenience.

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