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Nitrox Diving...Breathe Deep

Course Description:

This is course is to provide the diver with the information necessary to utilize EAN (Enriched Air Nitrox) as a breathing medium. The course may be taught as a stand-alone specialty course to certified divers or the knowledge and skills training may be integrated into the NAUI Scuba Diver course.

 

Prerequisites:

- NAUI Open Water course

- NAUI Advanced course

 

Skill Requirements:

At least two dives are to made using EAN, one of which is to be a repetitive dive. The student is to analyze his or her own breathing mixture and to plan and safely execute each dive.

 

Academic Requirements:

The following topics are to be covered: history of nitrox as a breathing gas; Dalton’s law of partial pressures; physiology of oxygen and nitrogen; depth limits, advantages, disadvantages and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and pre-cautions of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use of EAN with Standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures; and gas analyzing procedures.