The benefits of diving with Nitrox can be described with only a few words: With compressed air you can dive at 30 m for 15 minutes (within the no-decompression limit); using Nitrox enables you to stay at the same depth for 31 minutes ! You gain more than 100 % of possible dive time. The enrichment of air with oxygen means the reduction of nitrogen – and this is the big advantage. It has been known for a long time that compressed air, traditionally being used in recreational diving, isn`t the best gas to breath under water.

To remember: our breathing air consists of 21 % oxygen, 78 % nitrogen and 1 % other gases. The biggest problem with air is its high percentage of nitrogen. The known phenomenons nitrogen narcosis and decompression illness are linked directly with this fact. While scuba diving the human body saturates with nitrogen. The maximum possible dive time – also called no-decompression limit – is given from this nitrogen saturation. When diving with enriched air = Nitrox, the percentage of nitrogen is reduced. This results in the following listed advantages: - increase in safety because of less nitrogen in the human body - longer possible dive times = more enjoyment of the dives at the same cost - more dives per day possible From own experience and reports of other divers we also know that Nitrox divers: - are less tired after the dives - are warmer during the dives Especially dive beginners profit from diving with Nitrox because their buoyancy control will not be very good yet. Too quick and unintentional ascents are better tolerated by the human body then when diving with compressed air.

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