$70 Nitrox Course - Three Hours

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DandyDon

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Add book: + $28 = $98, including SDI card.

PS: Please do not turn this into value of Nitrox discussion. We've had plenty of those threads lately - go find one. It adds 50% NDL at depth, and the newbies want to dive with the more experienced. They can do their homework.

This really should be a new diver's second card, IMO - immediately after OW. Your OW card may suggest a max depth of 60 ft, or you may soon go for the Aow card for additionally training & experience - a fine idea, but if you don't get the Nitrox training & card before you need it, then you'll need it on a new but reasonable opportunity, not have it, and not be able to get it fast enough.

Some Ops won't allow an OW diver to do 100+ ft dives, but many will, and when I travel alone, so often I get stuck with the boat pick newbie who is out to admirably broaden his dive experiences by doing the easier, DM escorted deeper wrecks of the Keys, or deeper reefs of Coz, Cent Amer, the Caribe - but on air...!?. Had one last week off of Tavenier - a fine diver even tho he had but 50 dives logged, and we got along fine until he thumbed the dive with 5 min NDL while I had 13 on Nitrox. I would have like to stayed down for 10 more minutes.

I don't want to reject potential buddies over this, and I certainly do not want to suggest separate ascents. Suggesting he go into deco a few minutes did cross my mind as tempting, but of course I did NOT say it.

I saw at Water Worldsports in Key Largo that they're offering the course for $70 + $28 book = $98, 3 hours classroom after homework with tank analyzing, SDI card included. I had to do 2 dives on my Padi course, but learned virtually nothing on those, and I don't think even Padi requires these any more.

There's not that much to Nitrox diving within safe limits, but the course is essential to understanding diving Nitrox. Please get it done - whatever the cost is to you locally.

thank you...
 
Skeeter1097:
I agree, It was $70 with the book out the door.
It's now $70 PLUS $28 book, but Sdi card included.
 
I agree that this is a great course.

One of the major benefits of this course is the time spent on learning tables. yes I know that tables are taught in OW class, but you're soaking in a lot of information that week you take the OW course and not near enough learning time is spent on the tables in the newer format weekend courses.

So if you take the Nitrox course, you'll walk away from it with better experience on how to use the tables, both air and Nitrox.


You'll find many LDS's have lowered the price of this course since many of them don't require the open water dives anymore. Padi quit requiring them earlier this year. I think most shops will still let you do "checkout dives" as an additional part of the course to increase diver comfort level with diving the new 'voodoo gas'.
 
Agree with OP. I saw a PADI Enriched Diver course for $75CDN + slates + book which made it around $150CDN (around $130USD) with taxes out the door not a bad price considering some shops still ask for almost twice that.

The duration of the course is 4 hours over two nights.

Cheers.

-J.-
 
I also feel that the Nitrox class should be either included with the OW class or the first class right after OW. I still require students to do at least one dive for my Nitrox course. I teach them how to rescue a toxing diver. The books talk about it, but it is another thing to actually do it.
 
Boo, I already have my Nitrox card. :p
 
Ill twist this good suggestion around a bit, out of curiosity..
Having done OW and AOWD, would the preferrable next step be the rescue diver course, or the nitrox course?

Yeah, you figured it out.. I ask because I do indeed consider where to go from when the summer arrive again up here in the cold north. For the winter tho, Ill just stay in my drysuit sucking normal air and hoping to get at least 2 dives a month on average..
 
Tigerman:
Ill twist this good suggestion around a bit, out of curiosity..
Having done OW and AOWD, would the preferrable next step be the rescue diver course, or the nitrox course?

Yeah, you figured it out.. I ask because I do indeed consider where to go from when the summer arrive again up here in the cold north. For the winter tho, Ill just stay in my drysuit sucking normal air and hoping to get at least 2 dives a month on average..
MY personal suggestion is get the Nitrox course ASAP, so you'll have the card when you need it. I've done a lot of deeper dives on air when Nitrox was not available but Nitrox is preferable especially on the square profile dives like wrecks. If I have to dive air, I'm more likely to go into Deco some, so I did the Deco course.

If you get the opportunity to dive a wreck with a more experienced diver as a buddy & mentor, he'll be on Nitrox and not want an air buddy.
 
DandyDon:
Some Ops won't allow an OW diver to do 100+ ft dives

How deep are you diving and what %'s. I assume by deep you mean 100' - 130' range.

DandyDon:
If I have to dive air, I'm more likely to go into Deco some, so I did the Deco course.

Are these planned deco dives or do they just happen?

Just curious. I dive nitrox all the time for various reasons, going deep isn't one of them. You make it sound like the reason to take nitrox is for extended NDL's on deep dives in excess of 100'. I'm not sure I agree with this reasoning for a new diver for their next cert. Perhaps I am misunderstanding your point.
JR
 

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