Description

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to safely use Enriched Air Nitrox, to the maximum depth of their highest certification, with a certified dive buddy.

(Dry course)

Training and certification limits:

• Use nitrox breathing gas with an oxygen percentage ranging from 22 percent to 40 percent.
• Plan dives within modified No Decompression units using a programable personal nitrox dive computer or by using dive

planning software.

• Describe the hazards of handling high-oxygen gas mixtures, and the basic requirement for cleaning scuba gear for high-oxygen environments (i.e. Mixes up to 40% oxygen)

Excludes :  Gear rentals

Course program:

2-3 days required

Online registration – mandatory documentation completion required.

Quick Quizzes to be completed before commencing any training.

• Calculate the Maximum Operating Depth of an analyzed nitrox breathing gas at a target depth between 6 meters/20 feet and 40 meters/130 feet and a partial pressure of oxygen between 1.0 and 1.6 bar.
• Actual working oxygen analyzer and demonstrate its use.
• Demonstrate how to properly label an analyzed diving cylinder.
• Note: the nitrox diver specialty course is not a decompression course.
• A student taking this course must:
• Be a minimum of 12 years old
• Be certified as an Open Water 20 diver or equivalent.
• May be included as part of any RAID program including Open Water 20, Junior Open Water Diver, Scuba Diver and Junior Scuba Diver.
• Obtain guardian permission if a minor.
• Complete the registration process, including all mandatory paperwork.

Have access to an oxygen analyzer.