Were You Introduced to Nitrox in Your Basic OW Class

[ElectricZombie]

Yes. I took my initial scuba class through a major university. We had a whole semester of training. Naturally we extended to things well beyond basic open water. We did many of the advanced and master diver skills. Nitrox was mentioned and recommended as a possible cert. if you were going to continue diving.

ronbo - When doing O2 cleaning, you should do the hoses and replace the o-rings w/ O2 compatable ones.

 

[BigDiver]

During my open water training I was introduced, just briefly, to the many different areas of diving and nitrox was one of them.

 

[scubastefan]

No - I don't recall them ever mentioning Nitrox

 

[scuberd]

When I got certified, I don't think nitrox had been introduced to the rec diving community yet. That makes me feel old

 

[Welshman]

Never mentioned either in OW or AOW. I heard about it independently, made enquiries and is something I'd like to do once I've got my rescue diver out of the way.

 

[ScubaDubaDoo]

Nitrox was introduced (more like pushed) in my OW class. In fact most of us were diving with nitrox without having taken the class.

 

[Ron Brandt]

EANX was not around 22 years ago. I did my eanx cert when I was an AI. I was the first "legal" blender in town.

I have no plans of doing "adventure dives" with nitrox just yet. I do introduce my students to it thou as I usually use it on the last dive of the day.

The deep dive students will see me use trimix this year.

BTW , anybody seen the new trimix snorkels ?

Ron

 

[SPEEDSTER]

yup,

but it wasn't MY ow instructor, it was my wife's. I went thru the ow cert again when she got certified and that instructor went quite in depth on nitrox and touched on trimix and heliox.

-Mike

 

[Aquamore]

I did my basic course in 1969...
.... in those days if any one had talked about Nitrox we would have thought it was another great British Heavy Metal Rock band!

I joined Her Majesty's Forces about then and apart from air the only other option to breathe underwater was pure O2 from a Siebe Gohrman rebreather!
Must go now... need to take Zimmerfram to the Marine engineers for it's Monthly Maintenance Service.
:doctor:
Aquamore

 

[Jarhead]

Nitrox was discussed along with its pros/cons, but it was not pushed. My OW instructor did/does our boat dives with Nitrox, but he is not a certified Nitrox Instructor. When I asked about a class, he referred me to the SSI LDS about 28 miles away. I took two vacations to pickup the material, classroom portion, testing and did my check-out dives with Hydrospace (Panama City Beach, FL).

KD4RFA