Objectives of the Nitrox course?
- Learn more about nitrox mixtures
- Extend your bottom time
- Less surface interval
- Do repetitive dives
- Move forward with technical diving education
Course prerequisites:
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
- Minimum certification of open water diver or current enrollment in an open water diver course
What you will learn:
- Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox
- The benefits, hazards, and proper procedures for using nitrox mixes from 22 through 40 percent oxygen content
- Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure
- Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox mixtures, and gas blending procedures
- Manage oxygen exposure.
- Analyzing oxygen content in your scuba tank.
- Set your dive computer for diving with enriched air nitrox.
Structure of the Nitrox Diver Course:
- There are two options for this Course:
Option one: Standard Course
Option two: Course with 2 Cenotes Nitrox dives
What gear will you use?
Your Instructor will help choose and let you know if your gear meets the requirements.
- Regular modern scuba equipment
- Dive computers
- Scuba tanks must meet oxygen service standards and be dedicated for use with enriched air.
- Oxygen analyzers
- Special cylinder decals.
Next Step
Now that you earned your certification and will extend your dive time, you might consider moving to the next level
- Advanced Nitrox Diver course
- Decompression Procedures
- Specialty courses (Deep, Cavern, Sidemount, PPB, DPV…)