Course overview

Extend your no-decompression limits with the SSI Enriched Air Nitrox specialty in Moalboal, Cebu. Diving nitrox on the Panagsama wall and around Pescador Island gives you longer bottom times across repetitive dives, ideal for soaking up the sardine run and reef life. The course is largely knowledge-based, and you finish certified to dive enriched air up to 40 percent oxygen.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the advantages and limits of enriched air
• Analyse cylinders and label nitrox equipment correctly
• Set maximum operating depth and avoid oxygen exposure limits
• Program a dive computer for nitrox
• Calculate extended no-decompression limits
• Plan repetitive dives to maximise bottom time

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior) / 15
• SSI Open Water Diver or equivalent
• Diver medical questionnaire / physician's clearance where indicated

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

   Complete the digital academics and exam, practise cylinder analysis and computer set-up, with an optional supervised nitrox dive on the house reef.

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