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 Often the first step into the technical realm, Advanced Nitrox imparts skills and operational capabilities, which enable you to do dives to 140 fsw (42 msw) that require 15 minutes (or less) of decompression. This comprehensive course prepares you by covering such valuable skills as: valve shutdowns, proper lift bag deployment, air sharing, buoyancy control and swimming techniques, while also employing gas sharing and simulated out-of-air drills, as well as full gear removal at depth and on the surface. Don’t be surprised to find yourself removing all of your gear underwater and free ascending to the surface where you then take no more than 3 breaths, dive back down to your scuba gear, replacing all of it and then swimming off. The techniques and fundamentals of decompression stops will be taught, practiced and actually used on your training dives.
You will be doing a minimum of four dives during your Advanced Nitrox course utilizing EAN 21 – EAN 40 and using a higher oxygen content nitrox for deco (upto EAN 50).
IANTD’s Advanced Nitrox covers dive planning, equipment (with time spent on your gear configuration), oxygen, narcosis, decompression sickness, diving psychology and dive techniques. You will quickly find that these topics are dealt with in detailed depth, giving you new understandings that can truly be used to further your diving. This course is also one of those utilized as a prerequisite preparatory to taking a closed circuit rebreather course (the other being IANTD’s Advanced Recreational Trimix). It may also be taken in conjunction with the CCR course itself, or combined with a Deep Diver Program.
At some point in your diving future, you will realize that the knowledge, skills, experiences, scenarios and drills in Advanced Nitrox enabled you to become a better diver.
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