The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox programs provide students with basic knowledge and skills needed to safely dive using breathing gas with enriched gas mixtures.
Note | The Enriched Air Nitrox 32 certification qualifies the diver to use gas mixtures up to and including EAN32. The SSI Training Center that provides the diver’s breathing gas is solely responsible for gas analysis.
An active status Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty Instructor may conduct the Enriched Air Nitrox specialty program.
Note | SSI Referral Divers may enroll in SSI specialty programs and complete all academic and pool/confined water sessions. Open water training dives for all specialties cannot be combined with open water training dives for entry-level programs, and must be conducted after completion of all in-water training for the Open Water Diver program.
- No more than two (2) participants per instructor or certified assistant may be under the age of 12, and none of the remaining participants may be under the age of 15.
- During in-water skill evaluations, the students must remain under direct supervision of the SSI Professional so that physical contact can be made at any time.
- Complete the practical application session outlined in the instructor manual for Enriched Air Nitrox.
- Upon completion of all academic requirements, the SSI Professional may issue the program’s digital certification card.
- Certified SSI divers can dive with an equally- or more-qualified buddy in environments equivalent to their training and within the recommended depth limits of their certifications.
- Students younger than 15 years old will be certified as an SSI Junior Diver in the applicable program, and can dive under the direct supervision of a dive professional, or with a certified adult, in environments equivalent to their training and within the recommended depth limits.
- Certified Enriched Air Nitrox 32 divers must have the percent of oxygen in their breathing gas verified by a dive professional prior to every dive.
- Students may earn either Enriched Air Nitrox certification in combination with the Open Water Diver certification by completing all the required academic and practical application sessions from the Enriched Air Nitrox program during their Open Water Diver training.