Dive Instruction

PADI eLearning is internet based course work that you can access from anywhere via the world wide web.

With PADI eLearning, you can sign-up and complete the knowledge-based dive training from the convenience of your home, office or on the road, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. PADI’s eLearning system gives you the flexibility to study course material at your own pace. However, during the course, you can access the support of a PADI Professional at Divers Market, Inc., by email or phone to get guidance and help about the topic you are studying. 

Sign up for the eLearning portion to the right ----------->

After completing the online knowledge-based portion of the course, the PADI eLearning system plugs you into training with your PADI Instructor at Divers Market – for the best part: diving! eLearning makes continuing your diver education more convenient, more effective and more fun than ever! PADI’s eLearning system brings student divers all the benefits of computer based training, including student guidance, knowledge of results, flexibility and learner-based pacing. PADI eLearning provides the flexibility to attend knowledge development with minimal, fixed classroom time to help meet the demands of daily schedules and maximizing in water experience.

Pool Course - Must sign up at least one week in advance

• You are not yet signed up for the Pool Sessions
• Visit Divers Market to sign up for pool Sessions
• Fill out a folder with medical information, get fitted for SCUBA Gear, and purchase personal gear

The course will consist of three pool dives that will prepare you for the open water course.

What will I need?

• Equipment - Mask, snorkel, fins, boots, gloves (student pkgs. available here)
• Materials –PADI Diver’s Log &Training Record
• Completed on-line completion Form

eLearning Instructions

• Click "Register for Course"
• Select “Beginner Class Starts Right Now! On-Line!”
• Under PADI Digital courses, select “Register Now”
• On next page, select “Beginner, Open Water”
• Select format and Language
• On next screen,do not select enhancements
• Select "Proceed to Checkout"

Cost:   Three easy payments        

• eLearning $190.00 (payable online. Includes certification registration fee)
• Pool Sessions: $379.00. Must sign up at least one week in advance.
• Open Water Training Fee: $199.00 (includes 4 open water dives and use of SCUBA equipment)

This is an accelerated program. You will need to prepare some academic paperwork ahead of time at home.

The course is divided into eLearning and pool sessions. Meeting times are flexible and are designed around student and instructor schedules. In the pool, Instructors fully explain, demonstrate, and over-see the skills to be done by the students.

Sign up for eLearning to the right, then visit Divers Market to sign up for the pool sessions.

Following completion of all the pool sessions, students will participate in 4 open water dives* (usually two dives each day). During these dives students practice their skills in a pond & ocean environment under direct supervision of the Instructors and Divemasters. You may opt to take your open water dives elsewhere like the Caribbean. Ask for details.

This entire course is designed to be FUN and ENERGETIC while combined with a close instructor to student teaching ratio.

Diver's Market Scuba Center, a PADI 5 STAR Training Facility with over 30 years of experience will provide you with all the necessary diving equipment you need to complete the course with the exception of mask, fins, snorkel, booties, and gloves which is a requirement for each participant. To register a $200.00 non-refundable deposit is required to secure a seat in the class. SCUBA DIVING is something you've always thought about doing, why not give it a try!

Divers Market can prepare you for the adventure!

Time to schedule your child's scuba birthday pool party. 

We have been doing birthday parties for years. Pool parties are held at the Kingsbury Club & Spa.

Whether it’s a glass of milk, bubble gum or submerged beneath the surface – you can’t help blowing bubbles! So try blowing bubbles our way. Start out on the right fin, jump into our Bubblemaker program today! We do lots of them!

Try the Bubblemaker Birthday Party!

Party Facts

• 1 Hour in pool activity with Party captian
• Underwater photos and videos are included
• A Bubblemaker towel for the birthday child
• All paper products provided. Table cloths, plates, napkins, cups, and silverware
• Colorful invitations  and envelopes
• Birthday party menu available from the Kingsbury Club including Ozzies delicious hand made 16" pizza
• Please schedule as far in advance as possible

Float effortlessly, drifting over reefs. Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them

Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.

• Must be a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) and 10 years old.
• Number of dives: Two
• Buoyancy fundamentals, weighting and adjustments
• Streamlining, balance and trim
• Fine tuning buoyancy and mastering hovering
• Materials: Adventures In Diving Book
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

Want to take weight off your weight belt? This is what students from a recent class said:

"Come to find out, I was diving with more weight than needed."

"She got me to take off 19 pounds of back breaking lead in fresh and 16 pounds in salt water."

Get the buoyancy control great divers have with PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy.

Prior to taking the pool session, students must first complete the Padi SCUBA Tune-Up eLearning class online. Click here to go to the elearning website,  select SCUBA Tune-Up. The cost of this eLearning Class is $65.00 (payable online) and is in addition to the pool session described below.

The objective of this program is to offer certified divers the opportunity to refresh themselves under instructor or divemaster supervision on their academic and pool training. The instructor or divemaster will brief the participants on the skills they learned from their previous class experience. Its an easy and well informative 1 1/2 hour pool session.

You also have the option of doing two or four open water dives. You may feel that two dives in the open water is all you need for practice.

The price for open water dives is $50.00 per dive. You may opt for only one dive or do all four. Plus rentals. PREREQUISITE: Diving certification: PADI, NAUI, YMCA, SSI, NASDS etc.

The snorkeling program is designed to teach you the basic skills of snorkeling. You will learn and experience the fun of snorkeling in a heated pool.

During the pools sessions each student will be equipped with fins, mask, snorkel and buoyancy vest. Some of the skills you will learn include: Proper Equipment Selection Snorkel Clearing Surface Swimming & Surface Dives Proper Kicking Techniques Clearing Ears (equalizing) The program is fun and energetic. You will be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to gain the confidence you may need snorkeling around the pool or around an ocean reef!

Want to take your diving to the next level? Well look no further! Become a PADI Adventure Diver today and start experiencing the exciting adventures the world of diving has to offer.

The Adventure Diver program is the perfect opportunity to gain additional experience and skills under the guidance of our instructors.

To become a PADI Adventure Diver you need your PADI Open Water certification (or equivalent) and the desire to experience thrilling adventures. This in-water performance based program includes a total of three dives from the list below:

Boat, AWARE-Fish Identification, Deep Dive,  Drift, Dry Suit,  Night, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search and Recovery, Underwater Naturalist, Underwater Navigator, Underwater Photography, Wreck.

If you're 15 or older, and a PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent, then you're ready for the Adventure Diver program. Or, if you're a PADI Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent and between the ages of 12-14, there's the PADI Junior Adventure Diver program.

After successfully completing the program, you'll receive the PADI Adventure Diver certification. Now, take the next step! Complete two more adventure dives (must include deep and navigation) and become a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.

Instead of purchasing your Advanced Open Water Course materials from us, register online and read the materials, watch the videos, and answer the Knowledge Reviews at home, at a WiFi location, on vacation or anywhere you have an internet connection. Do it at your convenience 24/7.

The course contains five sections:

Boat
Deep
Night
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Underwater Navigation

Do you enjoy helping or assisting divers in need?

Then you will enjoy the RESCUE DIVER COURSE. Here divers learn in the classroom how to prevent, treat, and educate divers with problems associated with the water environment and diving.

These topics include Self-Rescue, Diver Stress, Diving First Aid, Equipment, Basic Life Support, Choking, Shock, Near-Drowning, and Emergency Management. Divers then go to the pool where students practice approaching victims, evaluating conditions, calming the victim, and transportation of the victim. Other topics deal with a panicked diver, a distressed diver, a missing diver, an unconscious diver, and using the boat or shore for assistance.

The RESCUE DIVER course is designed with lots of student involvement and participation.

Sharpen Your Skills with the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

You have the passion. You want to join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. You want to live the dive lifestyle and explore the underwater world and go places and see things you have never experienced. More than a pipe dream? Absolutely! Do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction – writing your ticket to endless adventure and opportunities through the experience and scuba training that sets you apart. The Fun Part With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you have reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you have acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

Prerequisites:

1. Open Water Diver

2. Advanced Open Water Diver

3. Rescue Diver

4. 50 Logged Dives

5. Five Specialty Diver Courses

The PADI Divemaster Course is the first professional level that deals with supervisory situations for both student and certified divers.

To qualify for PADI Divemaster training you'll need to be:

1. Certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent).

2. Certified as a PADI Rescue Diver (or equivalent).

3. Have logged a minimum of 40 open water dives prior to entry into PADI Divemaster training, and completed and logged a minimum of 60 open water dives prior to certification as a PADI Divemaster.

4. At least 18 years old.

5. In good physical condition for diving and submit a medical exam form signed by a physician.

The PADI Divemaster program consists of three modules:

1. Knowledge Development Module

2. Waterskills and Stamina Module

3. Practical Application

As a PADI Divemaster you'll be able to:

1. Act as certified instructional assistant.

2. Supervise participants in PADI experience programs for uncertified divers.

3. Generally supervise both training and non- training related diving activities by planning, organizing and directing dives.

4. Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers.

5. Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program for certified divers.

6. Enroll in PADI Instructor level training.

Upon successfully completing the PADI Divemaster program, you’ll receive a certification card and wall certificate. You’ll also become a member of PADI and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).

Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.

The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.
In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.

Diving in New England is exciting and diverse. It can also occasionally be pretty cold!

Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often. This suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.

If your the type of diver who wants to be able to dive year round, or if your diving requires extended bottom time then learning to use a drysuit is a necessity.

This easy, fun course is divided between academic, a pool session, and two open water training dives. By the time you're through with your training you'll be comfortable and competent in a drysuit.

Objective

The course is designed to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of recognizing diving injury warning signs, response and management. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.

The Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course is not designed to train lay persons to provide oxygen to the general public. While the medical standards and equipment are the same regarding the emergency use of oxygen for both divers and non-divers, the  Oxygen Provider course does not prepare individuals to respond to the ill or injured member of the general public by using emergency oxygen.

Recommended Minimum Hours of Training

• Knowledge Development (Lecture) = 1 Hour
• Skills Development (Practice) = 3 Hours

This course should be taught as a four-hour program. The time needed to teach the course varies and depends on many factors including the number of students and their ability to process the educational components of the program. Instructors who want to include subjects or training beyond the course requirements may do so only before or following the course. Any additional training must not be required for completion of course requirements.

Learning Objectives

Course participants must be familiar with the signs and symptoms of major diving injuries including near drowning and decompression illnesses (arterial gas embolism and decompression sickness).

Course participants must demonstrate proper deployment, assembly, disassembly, and use of all components of the PADI Oxygen Unit. This includes use of the demand inhalator valve / mask, constant flow (delivering oxygen at least 15 lpm), non-rebreather mask and oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet.

Course participants must complete the  Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries examination with a minimum passing score of 80 percent. The instructor will review the examination with each participant to ensure 100 percent understanding of the material.

Skill Performance Objectives

To successfully complete the  Oxygen Provider course, participants must demonstrate skill and confidence during deployment, assembly and disassembly of all parts of the  Oxygen Unit (or other acceptable units).

The course participant must demonstrate skill and confidence while providing emergency oxygen to simulated injured divers by:

- Assessing the scene and oxygen provider safety 
- Deploying and operating the  Oxygen Unit
- Selecting and preparing the appropriate oxygen mask 
- Operating the  Oxygen Unit and using these oxygen delivery devices:

- Demand inhalator valve and mask
- Constant-flow, non-rebreather mask
- Oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet
- Identification of the main components of the  Oxygen Unit
- Jumbo D cylinder and valve
- Multi-function regulator
- “T” handle
- Handwheel/wrench
- Oxygen washer
- Constant-flow controller
- Intermediate (green) pressure hose
- Pressure activated check valve (in threaded outlet)
- Demand inhalator valve
- Oronasal mask
- Non-rebreather mask
- Oronasal resuscitation mask with supplemental oxygen inlet

Learn how to trouble shoot your equipment!

Want to learn more about how your equipment operates and learn valuable care techniques from a dive professional? Then check into our PADI Equipment Specialist program.

You’ll need to be at least a PADI Scuba Diver (PADI Junior Scuba Diver or equivalent) and be 12 or older.

During your Equipment Specialist program, you'll familiarize yourself with the operation and maintenance of your own personal equipment.You may also be given the opportunity by your instructor to review new or unfamiliar dive equipment.

The program is not designed to be an extensive equipment-repair program, however, it does provide you with the following:

Theory, principles and operation of dive equipment. Routine, recommended care and maintenance procedures, and equipment storage. Common problems with equipment and recommended professional maintenance procedures. (May include a demonstration of repair procedures.) Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment configurations and an introduction to new equipment. (Optional trying of new or unfamiliar equipment in confined water may be included.)

The PADI Full Face mask Specialty Diver Course is designed to provide you with the basic safety, technical, and practical knowledge necessary to be a competent full face mask diver and feel comfortable using this system. The course will include a hands-on session to learn the features of the full face mask, skills training in the pool, and skill demonstration in an open water environment. Attention Public Safety Divers: This is the course for you!

Prerequisites:

• PADI Open Water Certification or comparable certification from another agency

• Current Medical Questionnaire

• PADI Student Record File filled out at registration

What Will You Need:

• SCUBA gear – rentals available

• Full Face mask – rental available

Areas Covered:

• Features of full face masks

• Benefits of diving with a full face mask

• Underwater Communication

• One Class, One Pool Session, Two Open Water Dives

First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries - A DAN Program

The objectives of this course are to train and educate the general diving public and interested non-divers in the first aid techniques for a suspected hazardous marine life injury. In addition, this course will introduce divers to the identification of potentially hazardous marine life and how to avoid hazardous marine life injuries. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.

Skill Performance Objectives
To successfully complete the DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries course, participants must demonstrate skill and confidence providing first aid to injured divers who have simulated hazardous marine life injuries.

The PADI ICE DIVER Course keeps us diving during those long winter months, depending on ice availability.

The course will consist of a classroom session from 6:30 - 9:30 pm and 1 weekend of open water dives.

Three dives under the ice are required for certification. We supply the specialty equip., you bring your personal dive equip. It is important that your regulator is in good working order. Drysuits are not required, many divers do it in a wetsuit!

Space is limited and deposits are needed to secure spots.

The PADI ICE DIVER Course will include topics such as reasons and opportunities for ice diving, equipment considerations, equipping the diver for ice diving, ice diving procedures, equipment problems and management, and many others.

Dives will be done as a group working as support personnel, divers, tenders, and safety divers. Divers under the ice will learn to control buoyancy, navigate under the ice, and keep in contact with the lead diver and tenders via line pulls.

Standard gear must include pressure gauge, depth gauge, compass, timing device/computer, dive knife, and a redundant air source {recommended, not required,i.e. doubles, pony bottle, spare air).

All safety and ice diving equipment will be supplied by instructors. Minimum age is 18 years. Advanced certification is required.

Night diving is both exciting and adventurous. It allows us to see marine life that we don't normally see in the day light hours.

The Night Diver course is designed to allow students to participate in at least three night dives under the direct supervision of a qualified PADI Instructor.

Students will learn about underwater lights, safety equipment, and back-up lights. Students will also demonstrate basic night diving orientation skills, hand / light signals, experience natural bioluminescence and much, much more. Three logged dives with an Instructor are required for certification.

 A PADI Night Diver certification card will be issued after successful completion of all three dives.

It will go towards your Master Diver Rating. The highest certification a recreational diver can achieve.  

 Complete the PADI eLearning Nitrox program then set up a practical session at Divers Market. Practical sessions will be set up on an individual basis and should last approximately one hour. Students will take a quick quiz to make sure they understand the material, will be shown our Nitrox system, and you will also learn how to analyze a Nitrox tank and utilizing your personal dive computer (supplied if you do not own one).

Below is an example of your bottom times!

Emergency First Response (EFR) is the fastest-growing international CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and First Aid training organization. Dedicated to training the lay rescuer, EFR courses encompasses adult, child and infant CPR skills, provides AED and First Aid training, and feature an outstanding First Aid at Work component. The company’s award-winning programs and state-of-the-art training materials make it a favorite among divers around the world.

Many divers take the Emergency First Response courses to meet program prerequisites, such as PADI Rescue Diver, or as preparation for becoming a PADI Divemaster. However, most have also found the EFR program to be important in every day life. They have taken a significant step in emergency preparedness, and feel confident that they can provide care should an emergency situation arise.

What do I need to start?

•  No dive certification required

•  No minimum age limit

What will I do?

The course incorporates independent study to prepare you for a classroom and hands-on skill development session with your instructor. You will learn the same patient care techniques used by medical professionals, but at a lay person level.

How long will it take?

Depending on the amount of independent study and the class size, the Primary Care and Secondary Care courses may be completed in as little as two sessions.

What will I need?

•  Participant Manuals
•  Participant DVD
•  PIC Certification Card
•  Pocket Mask

Join REEF, along with PADI's Project AWARE, and add an exciting new dimension to your next dive. We all know that the world's reefs are endangered and how many marine life populations are declining. Defining the extent of the problem and evaluating management solutions require a continual flow of accurate data tracking marine life populations. Unfortunately, the scientific communities lack the personnel, time, and funding to gather this large amount of critical data. Now, with the help of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) and PADI's Project AWARE, recreational divers can assist in this valuable data collection by participating in a Fish Survey Program.

It's as easy as 1, 2, and 3! First, start by enrolling in a REEF Fish ID course. This short training class, followed by 2 open water dives, will teach you the names of local marine life you are likely to see in your area and how to identify them. Second, while on you next dive, take along a dive slate and record the names and abundance of the local marine life you see during your dive. Third, after the dive, record your sightings on the easy-to-use scanning form and return it to REEF headquarters.

The surveys are scanned into a database designed for marine life management studies to be used for conservation projects around the world. Members of REEF are invited to conduct surveys on every dive and submit their findings. REEF also invites you to participate in specialized surveys such as the week long Great American Fish Count or maybe join the REEF Team for a one week field survey at a favorite dive destination. This is a great way to enjoy the sport you have come to love and give something back so that future generations may enjoy as well.

This course is brand new for the New England area! One of our Instructors co-authored the training guidelines of this course while the program was being created. Take this course from the people who put it together.

Finding lost or buried items underwater can be a frustrating if you don't know how.

I mean it seems so easy. Just dive down where you lost the item and it should be there, right? Wrong. The ocean is a complicated thing and learning to recover items is a serious activity that can be very rewarding.

Our Instructors have taught many fire department dive teams to perform and Search & Recovery operations. Our instructors bring that same level of knowledge and experience to the P.A.D.I. recreational diver course. You'll get your hands on experience with search lines, search patterns, lift bags, air lift devices, and more.

Want to improve the quality of your digital underwater photographs? Interested in purchasing an underwater camera, but don't know much about it? Here is the course for you.

The digital underwater photographer specialty course has two levels of certification. Level one provides the diver with the basic understanding, preparation, care and maintenance of the camera and housing and the basic techniques for taking underwater photographs while diving in an environmentally friendly manner. This class leads to the Digital Underwater Photographer Level One certification. The class starts with a lecture and review of basic underwater photography. The next step is to make a local dive where students use their cameras to take underwater photos. After the dive we will review the photos taken to quickly evaluate the results of your training and clean the photographic gear.

Level two is the full certification of the Digital Underwater Photographer and it expands the knowledge of underwater photography beyond level one. It starts with a lecture about underwater photography techniques and image formats. A dive is then made at another local site. After the dive students participate in a workshop where they download their photos using software that can manipulate the pictures to change aspects of the images and save it in different formats. A debriefing is held after that to discuss the results of their work where suggestions are made to help improve techniques and they rinse and clean the photographic gear.