The PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) course lets you dive longer and with more safety margin using higher-oxygen mixes. Mostly theory plus a short practical; materials and certification included.
The PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) course is one of the most popular specialties — and you can finish it in about a day, often without any dives. You learn how breathing air with more oxygen (up to 40%) lets you enjoy longer no-decompression limits and shorter surface intervals, which is ideal for daily and liveaboard diving. You'll practise analysing tanks and setting your computer, then certify to dive Nitrox for life.
Nitrox is especially valuable on our daily boats and liveaboards, where you dive several times a day. Once certified, you can rent and analyse Nitrox tanks with us on any trip.
Once you're Nitrox-certified it stays with you for life, and you can analyse and dive enriched-air tanks with us on any daily boat or liveaboard. It's one of the smartest upgrades a regular diver can make, especially for repetitive multi-dive days in the Red Sea.
No — Nitrox is about longer bottom times and shorter surface intervals, not depth. In fact it has shallower limits than air, which the course teaches you to manage.
The course can be completed with theory and tank-analysis practice; dives are optional. It's one of the quickest specialties to earn.
Very much — if you dive two or more times a day, longer no-stop limits and shorter intervals make a real difference.
