This course is classroom only and there is no water work. You are not required to bring any gear unless you would like to take notes. We will supply the nitrox cylinder and oxygen analyzer that you will use for the class.

We recommend purchasing your equipment at Aquatic Specialties so we can personally fit the equipment to you and your body type. We have many different brands, styles, and sizes, and having equipment that fits well will enhance your performance in the water and make your dive experience more enjoyable! We offer our students a 10% discount* on any required equipment that is purchased while actively enrolled in a course! Every customer matters and your support of your local dive shop is the backbone to our success. Your patronage motivates us to keep improving, and allows us to be able to provide you with the services that we do today - together, we will dive into great things!

*Some restrictions apply on select products

The course fee ($200) includes the following:

• Digital learning material, course registration, and certification fees for SSI
  • Lifetime access to SSI's digital learning material, digital logbook, digital certification cards, dive tables, and more

• 1 in-person classroom session: 
  • Students must complete the online material and exam prior to attending
  • Allows students to ask questions in real-time and engage more directly with the subject matter
  • Develop a genuine connection with your classmates and instructor
  • Facilitates collaborative work and learning

• Access to a nitrox cylinder that students will take turns analyzing and documenting

• Theory, Knowledge, and Skills:
  • Learn the science behind enriched air nitrox, including
    • benefits of nitrox
    • risks of nitrox
    • best practices for using nitrox
  • Understand how to analyze nitrox tanks, calculate no-decompression limits, and plan dives with enriched air
  • Master essential skills for safely planning and and executing nitrox dives
  • Work with dive tables and dive computers that account for the higher oxygen content, and how to manage oxygen exposure to avoid toxicity

Check out some of our other courses we have available for our certified Open Water students to advance their skills!

Deep Diving (Ages 15+): The Deep Diving Specialty will teach you all you need to dive to depths between 60 and 130 feet, through a mixture of academic sessions and open water dives. You will learn to plan and safely complete your deep diving adventures, and use computers and gas consumption calculations to get the most from your deep dives.

Wreck/Advanced Wreck Diving (Ages 15+): In Wreck Diving, you will be taught how to safely conduct non-penetration dives around wrecks and artificial reefs, up to a depth of 30 meters, and complete 2 dives around the perimeter of a wreck. Advanced Wreck allows limited penetration within the daylight zone into wrecks with an overhead environment. The training required for this type of diving is overhead buoyancy control (We recommend taking a Perfect Buoyancy class), new finning techniques, optional laying safety lines, and the proper use of lights.

Decompression Diving (Ages 16+): The Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 130 feet with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning. The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger!

Please note: Some courses have other prerequisites or required equipment that is necessary to complete the class. Please see the "prerequisites" and "required equipment" tabs for each individual class for more details.