ENRICHED AIR DIVER SPECIALTY
Scuba Diving|August 2020
What if there were a way to get more bottom time while reducing your risk of getting decompression sickness on most dives?
TRAVIS MARSHALL
ENRICHED AIR DIVER SPECIALTY

That sounds like something every diver would want, so it’s no surprise that PADI’s Enriched Air Diver (also called nitrox) is the most popular specialty course among divers the world over. “Nitrox certifications make up about 70 percent of all the courses we teach,” says Jay Roberts, operations manager for the Aggressor Adventures fleet of liveaboards. “And I’d say around 90 percent of divers on our boats use nitrox.”

This story is from the August 2020 edition of Scuba Diving.

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