What is NITROX Diving?
When you join dive excursions with other divers you may notice that some of them have different tanks, and that they perform a test on the gas within them. You’d be forgiven for assuming this is some kind of special technical diving but it’s not and it’s fast becoming the norm in recreational diving – let us introduce you to the world of nitrox diving!
There’s nothing too technical about nitrox (also known as ‘enriched air’), it’s simply a blend of gas that has some of the nitrogen removed and replaced with a higher concentration of oxygen. Since nitrogen is the gas responsible for decompression sickness, narcosis, limitations on dive times and number of dives than can be completed in a day, reducing the amount of nitrogen breathed in underwater is a good thing.
Why you should learn to dive with Nitrox
You should learn to dive with Nitrox because by furthering your diver training and completing the hugely popular PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver specialty course you can upgrade not only your portfolio of diving qualifications, but your safety too!
The course is simple to complete with the PADI eLearning course – it only takes a few hours and can mostly be completed at home! Once you arrive at the resort you will just need to meet with your instructor to go through the practical elements of gas analysing, filling in the nitrox log and setting your dive computer correctly.
Participants need to be a minimum of 12 years old and have an entry level certification of Open Water Diver or equivalent. The course can be completed in tandem with the PADI Open Water Diver course too.
Become a PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
Open the gateway to multiple dives in a day, shorter surface intervals and/or longer bottom times for repetitive dives. To get started, click the button below and select the dive centre you will be visiting then select ‘Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver’ – you’ll be diving safer and/or longer in no time!
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
