Course overview

Get more out of every dive with the PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) specialty in Djibouti, the most popular specialty worldwide. Diving enriched air on the Gulf of Tadjoura lets you extend no-decompression limits on the reefs and walls and shorten surface intervals, ideal for the repetitive boat diving and liveaboard trips this corner of the Red Sea is known for. The mostly theory-based course can be completed in a day.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the benefits and risks of diving enriched air
• Analyse a cylinder's oxygen content and set up your dive computer
• Calculate maximum operating depth and manage oxygen exposure
• Plan nitrox dives to extend no-decompression limits safely
• Label and log enriched-air cylinders correctly

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12
• PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another agency
• No additional logged-dive requirement
• 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
   Enriched air theory and analysis

   Cover nitrox theory, practise analysing cylinders and setting computers, and optionally apply it on enriched-air dives in the Gulf of Tadjoura.

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