Nitrox resources

[Heffey]

I am interested in finding more information on nitrox diving theory and oxygen toxicity issues.

Can any of you recommend any books, links, or other resources regarding enriched air diving or the technical issues of enriched air diving?

Thanks,
Jeffrey

 

[Rick Inman]

I am interested in finding more information on nitrox diving theory and oxygen toxicity issues.

Can any of you recommend any books, links, or other resources regarding enriched air diving or the technical issues of enriched air diving?

Thanks,
Jeffrey

Are you planning on taking a class? If you do, you'll get books and material when you sign up.

Otherwise, you can access more information on this board than in any single book, just by good use of the search function.

 

[Heffey]

Are you planning on taking a class? If you do, you'll get books and material when you sign up.

Otherwise, you can access more information on this board than in any single book, just by good use of the search function.

This is for knowledge only.

If or when I decide that nitrox is for me, a class is an absolute certainty.

I did a few searches but with the number of times nitrox is used in the scubaboard posts that have nothing to do with nitrox it is quite a nightmare.

Also, I don’t want any one to waste their time writhing out a dissertation on oxygen toxicity for me. I just thought if someone knew of a good book (even a text book) or other resource I could access it would be great.

 

[Diver0001]

I am interested in finding more information on nitrox diving theory and oxygen toxicity issues.

Can any of you recommend any books, links, or other resources regarding enriched air diving or the technical issues of enriched air diving?

Thanks,
Jeffrey

Try to borrow the book for the Nitrox specialty from someone. Everything you need is in there.

R..

 

[toodles]

I am interested in finding more information on nitrox diving theory and oxygen toxicity issues.

Can any of you recommend any books, links, or other resources regarding enriched air diving or the technical issues of enriched air diving?

Thanks,
Jeffrey

I would highly recommend the ANDI Complete SafeAir Manual.

A very informative manual.

 

[Drewski]

I've found this site interesting, although technical...

 

[*Floater*]

I've also been looking for nitrox info. I downloaded an online course manual from this site: http://www.americandivecenter.com/nitrox/preview_p01.htm (it's there for preview purposes only).

Plus I ordered a book called "Recreational Nitrox Diving" by Robert N. Rossier, which got good reviews (but I haven't received my copy yet).

I'd like to combine the 40m deep diving specialty course with the nitrox specialty course (to save money, and to be able to stay at 40m for maybe 45min - or however long you can stay at ~40m on EANx32 - instead of 5min on air), but I've heard some mixed feedback on whether that's done. Some dive resorts seem to offer the cambo, others say they don't because it's not good to use nitrox at 40m. Thoughts?

 

[Soggy]

MOD on Nitrox 32% is 111 ft or 34 meters. That's a PO2 of 1.4 (the maximum safe PO2 for the working portion of a dive). While a 45 minute dive is doable on nitrox 32 at 111 ft, it would require a bit of decompression, which is outside the realms of recreational nitrox use. A more reasonable NDL time at that depth would be about 25-30 minutes. You cannot safely dive to 40 or 45 meters on Nitrox 32%. At those depths you should really be considering trimix 21/35 or something similar.

45 meters is 150ft, which requires decompression virtually no matter how long you stay there and is definitely not a recreational dive profile.

I'd like to combine the 40m deep diving specialty course with the nitrox specialty course (to save money, and to be able to stay at 40m for maybe 45min - or however long you can stay at ~40m on EANx32 - instead of 5min on air), but I've heard some mixed feedback on whether that's done. Some dive resorts seem to offer the cambo, others say they don't because it's not good to use nitrox at 40m. Thoughts?

 

[*Floater*]

MOD on Nitrox 32% is 111 ft or 34 meters. That's a PO2 of 1.4 (the maximum safe PO2 for the working portion of a dive). While a 45 minute dive is doable on nitrox 32 at 111 ft, it would require a bit of decompression, which is outside the realms of recreational nitrox use. A more reasonable NDL time at that depth would be about 25-30 minutes. You cannot safely dive to 40 or 45 meters on Nitrox 32%. At those depths you should really be considering trimix 21/35 or something similar.

45 meters is 150ft, which requires decompression virtually no matter how long you stay there and is definitely not a recreational dive profile.

I would be happy with 25 min at 40m, compared with 5 or 10 min on air. For trimix I'd probably need another certificate, so it's not doable right now for me. Thanks for the info.

 

[dbulmer]

Floater,
Soggy was being very nice to you - it's not a certificate you need - it's dive time, experience, knowledge and patience. Your goal right now should be consolidation of your OW/AOW skills and Rescue skills. Nitrox is a good course but your lack of diving knowledge is very apparent in the questions you ask and while I might be coming across as an *********** I really do hope you appreciate that it's because I sincerely believe that you may be a candidate for an incident.
I apologize to anyone who thinks I might be out of line here but it's out of concern for the poster and is not borne of malice.