PADI ENRICHED AIR NITROX

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PADI Centre of Excellence and Career Development Centre

Would you like to spend longer underwater?

The PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty is for divers who want to extend their no-decompression limits and enjoy more useful time underwater.

Learn how increasing oxygen and reducing nitrogen in the breathing gas can safely extend dive time when the correct enriched-air mix is selected and analysed.

Course Details

  • Price: £175
  • Online theory: approximately 3 hours
  • Practical session at LSD: approximately 1 hour
  • Learn how to order and analyse enriched-air cylinders
  • Complete a short eLearner exam
  • No actual dives are involved

Important Information

  • Prerequisite: Open Water Diver
  • Minimum age: 12 years
  • The course develops gas-selection and analysis knowledge; it does not include in-water training
  • Always plan and use enriched air within the limits of the analysed mix and your certification

More useful bottom time

At 30 metres, a suitable enriched-air mix can extend the example no-decompression time from 20 minutes on air to 35 minutes. At 18 metres, the example increases from 56 minutes to 95 minutes.

Understand your gas

Learn to plan and analyse enriched air

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