Training Objectives (Updated January 2025)
The SCUBA Educators International NITROX specialty program is designed to familiarize the individual diver with the issues and procedures necessary to evaluate the application and utility of using oxygen enriched breathing mixes of 22% to 40% oxygen content for recreational SCUBA diving. Contact us for pricing.
📋 Prerequisites
- 👌 Age 15 or older
- 👌 Medical Questionnaire or medical by a physician (Download here)
- 👌 Statement of Understanding/Waiver and Release completed and signed if adult or completed and signed by student and parents/guardians if a minor (under age 18). (Download here)
- 👌 SCUBA Educators International Advanced Open Water Diver certification is recommended (or equivalent from a recognized agency).
🎒 Equipment
Minimum Student SCUBA System with nitrox cylinder.
Minimum Leader SCUBA System with nitrox cylinder.
Oxygen analysis/monitoring/measur ing devices.
Nitrox cylinders used in this course are to be appropriately marked and filled with EAN-32.
📚 Materials
- Required Text: IANTD Nitrox Manual or Recreation Nitrox Diving by Robert Rossier"
- SEI Air Diving Tables and SEI Nitrox Tables, EAN32 and EAN36.
- SCUBA logbook.
* Included in Student Kit
📘 Classroom Training
Classroom training included in the SCUBA Educators International Nitrox Diver course requires between four and six hours to complete and includes five required modules and one optional module.
📘 Open Water Training
Prior to certification, students are required to complete two (2) enriched air Nitrox dives. Nitrox training dives are limited to a maximum depth of 100 fsw (30 msw), and a partial pressure of oxygen at the maximum depth of the training dive not to exceed 1.4 ata PO2. Nitrox training dives are to be limited in bottom time to the no-stop dive limits established by the SCUBA Educators International Air Diving Tables using the equivalent air depth principle calculation or the SCUBA Educators International Enriched Air Nitrox Diving Tables for the oxygen enriched mix used during the dives.
📘 Examination and Testing
Students must pass a written exam covering information presented during the class in accordance with the specific NITROX training course materials supplied from the SCUBA Educators International office.
📘 Qualification Profile
Upon completion of this specialty course, students should be capable of determining specific oxygen concentration of their breathing gas mixture and planning and executing recreational Nitrox SCUBA dives within those parameters.
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