Training & Instruction

Interested in learning how to dive or maybe continuing your own diving education? Northeast Scuba can meet your needs and busy schedule. We have classes for the beginner all the way through instructor and instructor specialty courses. Over thirty different snorkeling and diving programs. For example, you can participate in our Open Water Diving courses during weeknights or through our intensive weekend schedules. Classes begin approximately every four weeks, all year long. We also offer executive, semi-private, and group lessons. Check out our schedule for the course that fits your diving plans.

Once you've completed your Open Water course, don't stop learning. The next course to consider is the Advanced Open Water program. In this class, you'll be exposed to new diving environments and skills.

Instructor Training

PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC): Interested in becoming a PADI Instructor or continuing as a PADI Specialty Instructor? Tom Huff, owner of Northeast Scuba is one of PADI's senior Course Directors, and has been training instructors for over 30 years. All PADI IDC's and Instructor Specialty Courses are available through our store in Chelmsford, which is a PADI 5 Star IDC Facility. IDC's are run monthly and target IE's scheduled for end of May and mid-October each year.

If you would like an IDC scheduled in your area, we also provide Alternate Location IDC's. Northeast Scuba offers a full line of PADI Instructor Specialty Courses. Expand your teaching horizons and provide your students with additional diving opportunities by continuing their education. Check out our list of classes below.

Continuing Education Classes

We offer the following classes on a regular basis. See the schedule for the next class dates. Call to reserve your space in our next continuing education course. The same courses are available as PADI Instructor Specialties:

Technical Diving

Northeast Scuba is pleased to offer a number of Technical Diving courses. These are advanced courses. Please read "Is Technical Diving For You?" and then look over the course descriptions to see if this is something you would like to pursue.

Technical diving opens up an area of exploration beyond the 130 foot recreational, no-decompression limits you have experienced so far. Maybe you want to extend a dive, not necessarily by going deeper, but by staying past the no-decompression limits of your dive planner or dive computer. Technical diving courses will teach you "how to" plan and execute such dives. Maybe there are wrecks or reefs below the 130 foot barrier you want to see. With proper training and dive planning you will be able to visit these wrecks or reefs and tell your friends about the experience.

Technical diving isn't for everyone but for those who can step up to the challenge and broaden their diving knowledge and increase their diving skills, then technical diving may be for them.