Course overview

Get more bottom time on the Belize Barrier Reef with the PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver specialty on Ambergris Caye. You learn to analyse and dive with nitrox so you can extend no-decompression limits and reduce surface intervals, ideal for the multi-dive days that the rich reef sites off San Pedro invite.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the benefits and risks of enriched air
• Analyse a cylinder's oxygen content
• Set and use a nitrox-capable dive computer
• Calculate maximum operating depth for a mix
• Manage oxygen exposure limits
• Plan extended no-decompression dives with nitrox

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or equivalent
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Nitrox theory & analysis

   Cover enriched-air theory, practise analysing cylinders and setting your computer, then optionally apply it on a reef dive off San Pedro.

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