Dan Orr is President of Dan Orr Consulting, LLC which provides expertise to the global diving community.  He retired as President of DAN and Chairman of the Board of International DAN after helping DAN develop a wide array of training and education programs and focus on its worldwide diving safety mission. Prior to coming to DAN, he developed and implemented course curricula in the academic environment, collected data and supervised research efforts in the field of science diving as a certified US Navy diver, tested diving equipment for military contractors, and worked for or served on the Boards of several non-profit and for-profit organizations.

He has published and co-authored over 100 articles and a dozen books and manuals and has been honored with many prestigious awards including the NOGI Award in Sports/Education, the Leonard Greenstone Award for Diving Safety, the Our World-Underwater Award, Beneath the Sea’s Diver of the Year, the Wyland Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement and the DEMA Reaching Out Award.