"anyone have info on Orbit Marine in Bridgeport? Good or bad? "
Orbit has been around forever and in this business that means you must be doing something right.
You can take the classes online and just do the pool sessions and test at a PADI shop which cuts out the travel and classroom time. That would make the course short unless you have problems in the pool. Somethings you’ll only learn in the pool, no way out of a book! Something like the USAF firefighting course I recently took online, sweeping the fire with the mouse, what was I supposed to have learned from that!?