Ever wished you could stay down longer but had to end your dive due to your No Decompression Limit? The PADI Enriched Air Specialty will enable you to extend your dive time.
Enriched air diving (sometimes referred to as EANX or Nitrox diving) allows a diver to stay submerged for longer by reducing the amount of nitrogen in our breathing cylinder, replacing it with oxygen. Nitrogen absorption determines our no-decompression limits, so by reducing the amount of nitrogen our body absorbs we can extend our bottom time at depth.
But nothing comes for free! Increasing the oxygen percentage of our breathing gas creates an elevated risk of oxygen toxicity, therefore additional planning steps and procedures are needed to safely enjoy the benefits of diving with nitrox.
The PADI Nitrox course certifies you to safely dive with nitrox blends containing up to 40% oxygen, to extend your bottom time and/or enhance the safety of your dives.
Plus the course gives us the opportunity to make two deep dives on nitrox, enjoying extra dive time as we explore dive sites off Koh Tao.
(& if you are getting really serious about diving, enriched air diver training is a prerequisite for technical diver training).
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We’re flexible with the schedule of the nitrox training and can adapt it to fit with your travel plans. Usually the course proceeds as follows:
Day 1: Theory, nitrox analyzing and dive planning
You’ll meet your instructor and begin by covering some nitrox diving theory, learning about partial pressures of gases, special considerations for equipment suitability when using nitrox plus how to safely manage oxygen exposure.
You will learn and practice how to analyze the oxygen content of a cylinder and become familiar with procedures for obtaining nitrox from a gas blending facility. Finally we’ll draw up a dive plan for our two dives on nitrox the following day.
Day 2: Nitrox Dives off Koh Tao
With our dive plan complete, tanks analyzed and correctly marked up we’ll board the Simple Life boat and head out for two dives.
On route to the dive site you will set your dive computer to the chosen blend of nitrox. Your instructor will cover dive computer operation with nitrox, and we’ll have a thorough briefing covering how the dives will be executed.
For the two dives, provided conditions permit we’ll most likely visit two of Koh Tao’s more challenging dive sites such as the Chumphon Pinnacles, Southwest or the HTMS Sattakut wreck. Diving with an enriched air blend in such depth ranges you’ll really get to see the benefits of extended bottom time.
On return to the dive shop you’ll then be certified as a PADI Enriched Air Diver.
If you’d like to book your place on the nitrox course please complete the following form.
Our staff will reply to you as soon as possible by email.
Learn to scuba dive in Koh Tao! The PADI Open Water Course is your 1st step. Explore coral reefs around Koh Tao & become a certified diver.
Single day intro to diving. Under instructor supervision, get to dive the amazing reefs off Koh Tao. Minimum age 10 years old.
2 day dive course training you to dive to 12M. Theory, skills and 2 amazing dives. Easy to upgrade to full PADI Open Water certification.
Try specialized diving activities including deep diving to 30M, night diving, navigation, wreck diving & more.
Amazing 3 specialty combo of deep diving to 40M, wreck diving (with wreck penetration) & nitrox diving. Monster special offer.
Join the crew at Simple Life Divers and become a Divemaster. Learn to giude underwater tours & become an expert diver.
Two dive trips each day for certified divers, rotating round all Koh Tao's best dive sites. Small groups, experience dive guides & lots of fun.
Unique opportunity: Join our marine conservation team and contribute to a reef restoration project & nurseries.
Been a while since your last dive? Refresh your skills and buoyancy with a half day PADI Scuba Review session.
Thailand's best dive site? Join our trips & find out! Dive Sail Rock's vertical 'chimney' swim-through & secret pinnacle.
Coral reefs, shipwrecks & pinnacles. Dive all the best spots; Chumphon Pinnacle, Sail Rock, HTMS Sattakut Wreck, Shark Island.
Find Nemo & much more! Turtles, trigger fish, moray eels, clown fish, barracuda, rays, whale sharks, bat fish, giant grouper.
Learn about our coral nursery and make an objective based dive, making a real contribution to reef preservation.
Spend a day with our marine conservation team. Learn coral reef restoration basics then put theory into action on 2 dives.
Learn coral diversity & ID, propagation & coral gardening. Make task based dives undertaking reef restoration monitoring & maintenance. Make a real difference!
Join our marine conservation crew! Spend an amazing month in Koh Tao, contributing to our reef restoration work. Combines in-depth theory and practical appication.
Escape to Koh Tao island & join Simple Life Divers crew. Tropical island life & epic diving. Adventure of a lifetime.
Amazing one month package. Become an expert level diver, exploring coral reefs and shipwrecks, experiencing life on a tropical island.
Join the Simple Life dive team and become a professional diver. Get trained to run dive tours and live in paradise.
Adventure of a lifetime! Become a PADI Dive Instructor, qualified to train new divers. Soak up the tropical island lifestyle.
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Mel, England
I would 100% recommend this scuba school to everyone. A huge thank you, especially to my amazing instructors Lucas and Claudio
Carol, New York
So welcoming and helpful. Excellent experience, would highly recommend them.
Sarena, Ontario, CA
My husband and I did our PADI open water dive course and was absolutely fantastic!
Ryan, UK
I can honestly say I have never had better training than was delivered. Thanks for a great course.
Chris, China
Simple Life Divers is a five stars diving school. We all love this school, because we all finished the AOW
