Extend Your Dive Time

Do you want to extend your in-water dive time? Do you want to gain a better understanding of decompression and use a gas that will allow you to do that?

The answers to these two simple questions are the reason why nitrox is the most popular diver specialty in the industry. Nitrox has proved to be so popular within the diving community that many dive centers offer only nitrox as their breathing gas.

Nitrox use has many benefits for sport divers. But most divers use nitrox because it helps better manage the risk of decompression sickness. In the Nitrox course, you will learn the pros and cons of using nitrox as a breathing gas for sport diving.

What Will You Learn?

You will learn new skills and extend your diving knowledge, including information such as why nitrox is often a better choice than air. Most importantly, this course will teach you how to plan nitrox dives, what you have to do to stay safe when you use nitrox, and how to analyze and label dive cylinders so that there is never a mix-up.

Keep Diving / Nitrox - RAID International Scuba Diving Course

Program Content

During the Nitrox program, you will complete the online academics and learn the following:

How to use nitrox mixes from 22%-40% oxygen
How to plan dives to a planned maximum PO2 of 1.4 bar and a contingency PO2 of 1.6 bar
What the causes and effects of oxygen toxicity are and how to avoid them
How to safely analyze the oxygen content in a nitrox mix and know the depths at which you can use it
How to label your nitrox cylinder appropriately
How to fill in a nitrox log
What the benefits of enriched oxygen are for sport divers

Note: Two open water dives may be offered by your instructor for this program, but these dives are not mandatory.

Prerequisites

You must be a certified Open Water diver.
You must be a minimum of 12 years old.

Course Sign Up

Sign up today and get ready to enjoy all the benefits of nitrox. Once you pay, Dive Talk Scuba will email you access to the

RAID online system which will allow you to study at home, on your own time, through a time-honored interactive system. You will always have complete access to the Nitrox course manuals as a reference, and when we update the manual, you will see those changes immediately. You will be required to complete the online materials and pass the online exam prior to the virtual class.

You will also need to download the RAID virtual analyzer version 2 at:

Download the App to your mobile device (iOS & Android) now by following the links below and see for yourself.

Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ds.VAnalyzer

Apple App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nitrox-virtual-analyzer/id1505174941?mt=8

Nitrox Diver Standards (ISO-11107:2009)

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to safely use Enriched Air Nitrox to a maximum of 40% oxygen, to the maximum depth of their highest certification.

This course is designed to safely train certified divers to:

Use nitrox breathing gas with an oxygen percentage ranging from 22 percent to 40 percent.
Plan dives within modified No Decompression units using a programable personal nitrox dive computer or by using dive planning software.
Describe the hazards of handling high-oxygen gas mixtures, and the basic requirement for cleaning scuba gear for high-oxygen environments (i.e. mixes up to 40% oxygen)
Calculate the Maximum Operating Depth of an analyzed nitrox breathing gas at a target depth between 6 meters/20 feet and 40 meters/130 feet and a partial pressure of oxygen between 1.0 and 1.6 bar.
Understand the relationship between an oxygen partial pressure and NOAA time limits to determine oxygen CNS loading.
List the signs and symptoms of Central Nervous System oxygen toxicity.
Understand how to calibrate a simple oxygen analyzer and use it to measure O2 percentage in a cylinder of diving gas. To familiarize themselves with the standards procedures for gas analysis, students should use the Nitrox Virtual Analyzer powered by RAID App.
Demonstrate how to properly label an analyzed diving cylinder.

Note: The nitrox diver specialty course is not a decompression course.

Student Prerequisites

Be a minimum 12 years old.
Be a certified RAID Open Water 20 diver or equivalent.
May be included as part of any RAID program including Open Water 20, Junior Open Water Diver, Scuba Diver and Junior Scuba Diver.
Complete the registration process, including all mandatory paperwork.
Obtain guardian permission, if a minor.
Access to an oxygen analyzer or use the Nitrox Virtual Analyzer App.

⭐ The Nitrox Specialty Diver certification entitles the holder to dive with a certified dive buddy, autonomously, to a maximum depth in accordance to prior certification using a nitrox breathing gas delivering an oxygen partial pressure to a planned PO2 of 1.4 bar and a contingency of 1.6 bar or less at maximum planned depth to a maximum of 40 meters / 130 feet.

Dive Talk Scuba Nitrox Virtual Certification Class (RAID Cert)