Capt Ron is a NAUI Nitrox Instructor. It doesn't matter which agency gave you your open water certification. Try Nitrox with Capt Ron, if you want the certification, simply take a short multiple choice question test at the end of the charter.
Nitrox Facts The short and skinny of why you should dive Nitrox is this:
plain air. You can purchase Nitrox in almost any percentage of oxygen between 22%-40%, but the two most common mixes are 32% and 36%, you will learn why most divers use these particular mixes later on in class. Based off of standard dive shop mixes of 32% & 36 %, these are the dive time increases when using Nitrox Diving on air @ 60' gives 55 minutes Diving on Nitrox @ 60' gives 100 minutes= 80% increase in dive time Diving on air @100' gives 22 minutes Diving on Nitrox @100' gives 40 minutes= 85% increase in dive time Diving on air @110' gives 15 minutes Diving on Nitrox @110' gives 30 minutes = 100% increase in dive time Diving on air @130' gives 08 minutes Diving on Nitrox @130' gives 20 minutes= 150% increase in dive time When comparing costs, the average air fill is $8.00, the average Nitrox fill is $12.00, Nitrox wins hands down in pennies per minute, not to mention the fact that you will paying $70-150 for a dive charter trip and the captain only gives you one hour to off-gas in between the first and second. One hour is the charter dive industry standard and few make exceptions. They are operating a seasonal business and trying to squeeze every penny they can. The longer you off-gas, the more time you have on your next dive. Example: If you dove on air to a depth of 100' for 25 minutes on your first dive and you were only given one hour surface interval to off-gas before your second dive to 70', you would only be allowed to dive for 8 minutes on your second dive. If you dove a standard 36 mix Nitrox at a depth of 100' for 25 minutes on your first dive with the same surface interval of one hour, on your second dive to 70' you would have 30 minutes to dive! Now doesn't that make cents$ The fact is you get the most dive time for your dollar with Nitrox. I buy prepaid Nitrox fills from my local dive shop and pay less than $6.00 per fill. At that price, I doubt they are making much profit if any. Why do they do it then? Because they know I'll be back to buy everything else from them and that's fine with me. We must support our local dive shops when ever we can, without them we have no air or Nitrox and they don't stay in business off of selling gas fills You can take this course along with your basic open water certification or after. You do not need to actually dive with Nitrox if you are already a certified diver to become Nitrox certified because there is no physical difference in using it. |
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