It’s simple: If spending more time exploring the underwater world is a priority for you, then the PADI Enriched Air Diver course could be a game changer.

So what will you learn in the PADI Enriched Air Diver course? Well, here’s a breakdown:

Benefits of the PADI Enriched Air Diver course

Diving with enriched air nitrox increases your no decompression time, especially on repeat dives. It also decreases your required surface interval, giving you the chance to make the most of your travels by diving longer and more frequently.

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Prerequisites for the PADI Enriched Air Diver course

You must be a PADI Open Water Diver — or Junior Open Water Diver — and at least 12 years old in most regions.

What you’ll learn in the PADI Enriched Air Diver course

There are many benefits to diving on enriched air nitrox, but there are also restrictions. This course will teach you everything that’s needed to safely dive on enriched air nitrox, analyze the oxygen content in a scuba tank, and adjust a dive computer to account for enriched air nitrox.

From a PADI Expert

“When you look at the evolution of dive gear and technique, a primary driver is time. Getting cold ended dives, so we invented wetsuits. We used air kicking to stay off the bottom, so we invented BCDs. Tables gave us no-stop limits based on our deepest depth — even if we’re only there for two seconds, but computers and the eRDPML unchained us from that with multilevel diving. Enriched air nitrox continues the evolution — we get a lot more no-stop time, and you especially see it with repeat diving. Suppose you want to do 80 for 25 minutes, stay up an hour and then go to 60. With air, you have 39 minutes no-stop. Do the same with EANx36 and you have 95 minutes! And that’s with tables. Multilevel using dive computer with enriched air and no-stop time rarely ends the dive.”

– Karl Shreeves, PADI Technical Development Executive