Enriched Air

The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why.
Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time. This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

You can typically stay down longer and get back the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.

Topics and training: 

 

  • Advantages of Diving with Enriched Air
  • Equipment for Enriched Air Diving
  • Oxygen Exposure
  • Oxygen Analysis and Obtaining Enriched Air Fills
  • Using Enriched Air Dive Computers
  • Diving Emergencies and Enriched Air
  • Uisng Enriched Air RDPs
  • Repetitive Dive Planning with Enriched Air
  • About Technical Diving
  • Pracitcal training of real dive planning, gas analysis, fill procedures

    General Course information: 
  • Number of Dives: None! (though your next dives can be using NITROX)
  • Includes PADI Enriched Air Dive Manual, RDP’s and Equivalent Air Depth and Exposure Tables
  • Duration: 1 day (or take the eLearing option to save you vacation time for diving!)
  • Minimum qualification: Must be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Minimum Age:12

 

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating

For more information please contact us

 

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