This Program is designed to provide Sport Divers with a safer than air breathing medium for enjoying dives in the 12 to 39 msw depth ranges.

The diver may elect to dive the “mix” on EANx tables, or dive conservatively using air dive computers or air tables.

The IANTD EANx Diver qualification may be taught as a single Program or combined with a variety of the IANTD Advanced or Specialty Diver Programs.

No previous experience required

This Program is designed to extend the diver’s knowledge in the use of EANx for Sport diving. It further develops diving skills and provides a greater understanding of the EANx concept of diving.

The Program employs EANx mixes up to 1.5 PO2.

Basic Nitrox

This Program is designed to extend the diver’s knowledge in the use of EANx for Sport diving. It further develops diving skills and provides a greater understanding of the EANx concept of diving. It is also intended to supplement the skills of Recreational Trimix Divers. 

The Program employs EANx mixes from 21% oxygen to a maximum of 1.5 PO2 combined with a Helium content that maintains an END no greater than 80 fsw (24 msw) may be used. 

Basic Nitrox

This Program is designed to train competent personnel in the safe handling of oxygen and the preparation of EANx

No previous experience required

This Program is designed to train competent divers in the safer use and technology of CCR for dives requiring up to 15 minutes of decompression.

It is also especially useful to train divers who wish to dive up to 48 msw if using diluent with helium or 42 msw if using air as a diluent.

The training requirements here are IANTD minimums.  

Advanced Nitrox

This Program is designed to train those who wish to dive to depths between 39 msw and 60 msw, but who do not wish to breathe air below 39 msw. Trimix affords a means of reducing narcosis on dives to such depths.

The knowledge and skills taught in this program are more than adequate to qualify divers to perform Trimix Dives outside of training up to 60 msw

Advanced Nitrox

This Program is designed to train divers in the safer use of the CCR for dives using normoxic helium-based gas mixtures for diluent and stages. It is also especially useful to train divers who wish to dive up to 60 msw), but do not wish to breathe air diluent below 27 msw on CCR.

The knowledge and skills taught in this program are more than adequate to qualify divers to perform Trimix Dives outside of training up to 60 msw.

Nitrox CCR

This Program is designed for those individuals already involved in deep diving activities, but is not intended to be used as an enticement to divers who are content to remain in Sport or EANx diving limits.

Trimix affords a safer means for deep-water exploration for divers who dive deep or perform with a clear head at depth.

The IANTD Trimix Diver Program requires the diver to be self-sufficient/reliant.   The knowledge and skills taught in this program are more than adequate to qualify divers to perform Trimix Dives outside of training up to 100 msw.

Normoxic Trimix Diver

This Program is designed to train divers in the safer use and technology of Rebreathers for deep diving to depths in excess of 60 msw.

The knowledge and skills taught in this program are more than adequate to qualify divers to perform Trimix Dives outside of training up to 100 msw.

Normoxic CCR Diver

This Program is designed to train competent personnel in the safe handling of oxygen and the preparation of Trimix and Heliox.

Nitrox Gas Blender

Enhanced Air Nitrox, Oxygen Enriched Air, Nitrox, EANx, Safe Air, Devils Gas, Voodoo Gas… These are just some of the names it goes by.

Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver Speciality course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no-stop time beyond the no-decompression limits for air.

Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.

Please note that there are no dives to complete on this speciality course.

£79

Minimum age – 15 years old.

Be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation.

Imagine sliding through the water, accompanied not by the roar of bubbles, but by silence. Imagine getting close and personal with aquatic life – getting closer than ever before. When you dive with a semiclosed rebreather, you’re nearly bubble free – reducing the noise and disturbance that can scare away shy creatures.

Through either the Semiclosed Rebreather Draeger Dolphin/Atlantis Specialty course or the Semiclosed Rebreather Draeger Ray Specialty course you learn the special procedures for semiclosed rebreather diving. This includes special dive planning, organization, procedures and potential hazards, many of which differ significantly from conventional (open circuit) scuba.

• Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) or a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization) with proof of at least 10 logged dives beyond open water training dives, and be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Number of Dives: Three
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Assembly, disassembly and maintenance
• Dive planning and emergency procedures with semiclosed rebreathers
• Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
• Dive nearly bubble free.

Advanced Open water diver or a Open Water Diver with additional 10 logged dives. (or equivalent from another organisation)

Enriched Air Speciality or equivalent from another organisation.

Why DSAT Gas Blender?
More people are diving with enriched air and this means the demand for enriched air fills is also increasing. However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the DSAT Gas Blender course comes in. It can result in one of two certifications: DSAT Gas Blender or DSAT Trimix Blender.

What do I need to start?
PADI Enriched Air Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)

• Minimum age: 18 years old

What will I do?
The DSAT Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers. You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.

What will I need?

• DSAT Gas Blender Manual
• Gas Mix Calculator

PADI Enriched Air Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)or Enriched Air Blender for Trimix.

Minimum age: 18 years old