This continuing education course is for students enrolled in a NAUI open water course or certified as an open water scuba diver. The course may be taught as a stand-alone specialty course to certified divers or the knowledge and skills training may be integrated into other NAUI certification courses including the NAUI Open Water Scuba Diver course. This course provides divers with the skills to utilize EANx as a breathing medium.
The NAUI Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx/Nitrox) course teaches you how to choose the proper blend of Nitrox for your dive profile, determine maximum depth limits for your Nitrox mixture, analyze your breathing mixture, and plan and safely execute each dive. You learn about the physiology of oxygen and nitrogen; advantages, disadvantages, and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and precautions of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use of EANx with standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures; and more. Add on closes May 15.
*This course is optional and offered at an additional cost of $350. To sign up, please click the “NAUI Nitrox Certification” option on the first page of registration when you sign up for your voyage and it will automatically be added to your tuition.