To Nitrox or not to Nitrox
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Don, I've logged at least 350 dives in Coz and only once encountered a down current. I wouldn't say Coz is KNOWN for down currents. They exist but are not pervasive. Why alarm newcomers unnecessarily?
Well, after spending every other Thursday in Coz for a two year stretch, I'm hardly a newcomer..
I never felt like I was going to be sucked into the blue trench!However, I think that living on the edge of MOD without a hard bottom is something to at least be aware of!
So where are these $100 online NITROX classes? The only one I found was from a cert agency that I've never heard of from a school in AZ. Can I have NAUI OW, PADI AOW, and SCA Nitrox cert cards and be taken seriously anywhere?!?!
Well, after spending every other Thursday in Coz for a two year stretch, I'm hardly a newcomer..
Maybe not you. But others read these threads too. BTW I've never had a nitrox tank that was off by about 0.2%.
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On a liveaboard, nitrox is a no brainer but the only times we use it in Coz is if we are diving up north for eagle rays which is a deep square profile and Nitrox buys you a ton of bottom time. The operators we dive with don't do nitrox on the first dive due to depth but do encourage it's use (36%) on the second dive. Since we are diving air, we go into deco some times when the others using nitrox have lots of extra time. Going into deco isn't an issue for us since our computers always are cleared before we start our safety stop and we always do a 5 min stop.
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Personally I dont think any dive course should be done online, to many questions come up that the instructors can answer right away.
So where are these $100 online NITROX classes? The only one I found was from a cert agency that I've never heard of from a school in AZ. Can I have NAUI OW, PADI AOW, and SCA Nitrox cert cards and be taken seriously anywhere?!?!
Let me Google that for you, my search challenged diving brother: $99 nitrox classes
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...by diving Nitrox but setting one's computer on 'air', one is dangerously underestimating one's oxygen exposure (oxygen toxicity) ......oxygen exposure needs to be monitored just as does nitrogen exposure....plus not analyzing one's tanks.......those are ways Darwin weeds idiots out of the gene pool!
I didn't say I couldn't find one, I said I'd never heard of SDI or SDA and was wondering if I was paying 80-100 for a course that no one would honor the card from.
Thanks for the animation though!!
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NITROX Scuba Diving - Get Nitrox or Enriched Air Certified Online Today!
Thanks for the animation though!!
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NITROX Scuba Diving - Get Nitrox or Enriched Air Certified Online Today!
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I conveyed a similar suggestion somewhat more politely face to face.
The main fill station in Coz has an excellent record to my knowledge for delivering Nx tanks accurately marked for content, but I check every tank. Much better record than their CO record this summer; as I said, I carry two analyzers onto a boat.
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