PADI NITROX
If you want to stay underwater longer or if you intend to sign up for tec diving, Enriched Air Nitrox is a MUST! While it is allowed to teach this course without diving, we want you to experience the benefits of Enriched Air up to 40% oxygen, so we'll include the dives. This is the "air" of tomorrow by all indictaions.
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 in the water sooner. No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.
What you will learn
- Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox
- Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations
- Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what's in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer
Prerequisites
- Be a PADI Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
- Be at least 15 years old
- Have a medical form signed by your physician
Course Duration: 1 Day
Price: 7,500 Baht
PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Instructor
The PADI Enriched Air Specialty Instructor course is conducted over a day and will train candidates how to organize market and conduct Enriched Air (Nitrox) classes. The Enriched Air specialty is presently the most popular specialty in the diving world. We would recommend all instructors to obtain this highly sought-after qualification.
- Be a PADI Assistant Instructor, PADI Instructor or have completed a PADI IDC/OWSI within the previous 12 months
- Be a PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization
- At least 18 years old
- Have a medical form signed by your physician
- Completion Requirement: Proof of 10 Logged Enriched Air dives
As a full time PADI instructor on Koh Tao with Sunshine Dive Resort, I thought my learning days were over and my teaching days would continue to take me through this incredible lifestyle that some call a "job". However, when I heard for the first time ever, that this diving island was offering a professionally credentialed technical operations package, I jumped at the opportunity. My goals, which were achieved through the package program, were to improve my curriculum vitae and get hands on experience with equipment, compressors and mixed gases. Nitrox, which I believe to be the air of the future, was a no brainer.
