Does AOW allow you to start using Nitrox?

[Eskasi]

If you have an AOW certification and did the Enriched air specialty, is it the same as the specialty course and can you begin to use Nitox?

If not, then I guess I could do the Nitrox certification....

 

[rakkis]

Let's make sure we understand you.

If you took AOW and dive ONE Nitrox dive and the first part of the knowledge review as part of the AOW course, then no. You are not Nitrox certified.

If you took AOW, and did 2 Nitrox dives and both parts of the Nitrox workbooks. Then yes you are Nitrox certified.

(Technically you don't even have to do the dives anymore, just the class work)

 

[RJP]

No cert, no EANx.

 

[Charles R]

If you have an AOW certification and did the Enriched air specialty, is it the same as the specialty course and can you begin to use Nitox?

If not, then I guess I could do the Nitrox certification....

Were you given a temporay EAN card or did you fill out a PIC card for EAN if you did then yes you can dive nitrox if no then you need to take the nitox class and there are no dive needed if we are talking about PADI

 

[AXL72]

I truly don't know the answer to the OP's good question

so I will just await more feedback from instructors.

Question I have is, "why even take the EAN specialty if you cannot dive EAN?"

 

[Walter]

There is a misunderstanding here. When you make dives in the AOW course, they are not "specialty" dives.

 

[Charles R]

I truly don't know the answer to the OP's good question

so I will just await more feedback from instructors.

Question I have is, "why even take the EAN specialty if you cannot dive EAN?"

Sounds like he did an adventure dive in EAN that is not the specilty class just a hey check this out type of deal just like the deep dive in AOW dose not allow you to do deep dive its just an introduction

 

[Eskasi]

Were you given a temporay EAN card or did you fill out a PIC card for EAN if you did then yes you can dive nitrox if no then you need to take the nitox class and there are no dive needed if we are talking about PADI

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I am indeed talking about Padi. I want to be able to dive Nitrow eventually and I was wondering if it was worth doing Enriched air in the AOW course if I also did the Nitrox specialty class.

How much classwork is involved? (I am on vacation and may choose to do the certification later if it takes a bit). How about the wreck diving specialty? Is it a fun course? I may do that in Sharm.

 

[Charles R]

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I am indeed talking about Padi. I want to be able to dive Nitrow eventually and I was wondering if it was worth doing Enriched air in the AOW course if I also did the Nitrox specialty class.

How much classwork is involved? (I am on vacation and may choose to do the certification later if it takes a bit). How about the wreck diving specialty? Is it a fun course? I may do that in Sharm.

The Nitrox Specialty class was 4 hrs long and you are certified kinda scary. the Wreck is fun if that is something you are interested in and you are somewhere you can dive a real wreck not just a car in alake kinda thing.

 

[plot]

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I am indeed talking about Padi. I want to be able to dive Nitrow eventually and I was wondering if it was worth doing Enriched air in the AOW course if I also did the Nitrox specialty class.

How much classwork is involved? (I am on vacation and may choose to do the certification later if it takes a bit). How about the wreck diving specialty? Is it a fun course? I may do that in Sharm.

My nitrox course was 100% class, no dives, becuase, as you could probably tell when you went on your dive using EANx, there was no notable difference in the physical aspect of diving compared to using air... some might argue that you get less fatigued or feel better afterwords, but that's just that, an arguement. Some shops may have you dive it as well as do the coursework though.

The course involved reading a nitrox book, filling out the questions with each chapter, then there was like a 3-4 hour class with an instructor who went over the answers, went through the nitrox tables, reinforced the important aspects, showed us an analyzer and had each of us use it, as well as explain the different types of analyzers out there, etc. take a test and that was that.

I went through SSI, I'd assume PADI is very similar.