PADI Enriched Air Diver

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

Testimonials:

Quote start Scott (Nitrox Testimonial) 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.

Going far beyond the minimum recommendations of time, skill and knowledge development, Bans Tec offers an intense seven day program to learn the fundamentals of equipment maintenance, compressor operation and gas blending procedures. Getting out of the classroom not only gave me the opportunity to apply the knowledge I was gaining indoors but it was actually fun to help fill tanks on the boat, assist the staff with equipment repairs and dive using the gas blends we mixed . As an instructor myself, I am fairly critical of teaching styles and techniques but I can honestly say that Craig was incredibly knowledgeable of these topics and approachable in his lectures and workshops.

I highly recommend Bans Tec programs to all those interested in actually understanding the equipment their using and how to maintain it!

Cheers Scooter