Nitrox

Service Description

Do you want to extend your NDL (No Decompression Limit) ? Do you want to gain a better understanding of decompression and use a gas that will allow you to do that? The answers to these two simple questions are the reason why nitrox is the most popular diver specialty in the industry. You will learn new skills and extend your diving knowledge, including information such as why nitrox is often a better choice than air. Most importantly, this course will teach you how to plan nitrox dives, what you have to do to stay safe when you use nitrox, and how to analyze and label dive cylinders so that there is never a mix-up. During the nitrox course you will learn the following: How to use nitrox mixes from 22%-40% oxygen How to plan dives to a planned maximum PO2 of 1.4 bar and a contingency PO2 of 1.6 bar What the causes and effects of oxygen toxicity are and how to avoid them How to safely analyze the oxygen in a nitrox mix and know the depths at which you can use it How to label your nitrox cylinder appropriately How to fill in a nitrox log What the benefits of enriched air nitrox (EANx) are for sport divers This course takes 1 day to complete