NITROX FOR FREE

Picture this:
You're on a Fish 'n Fins dive in Palau at the spectacular and always stunning Blue Corner. You are hooked into the reef corner at 60 feet / 18 meters as uncountable sharks loom around you, and two huge eagle rays hover effortlessly in the current against a backdrop of blackbar barracuda. All too soon, you have to ascend to a shallower depth in order to remain within the no-decompression diving limits. As you longingly look back down at the corner, you see two other divers still down there, and they started the dive at the same time as you! They have bright yellow and green Nitrox labels on their tanks. How does this work?

What is Nitrox?

Nitrox, or Enriched Air, is a mixture of air with less nitrogen and more oxygen than the normal air we breathe from our scuba tanks. Normal air contains approximately 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen. NITROX is available in mixtures of 32% oxygen, 36% oxygen and 40% oxygen.

Why Nitrox?

This higher oxygen percentage and lower nitrogen percentage in the air means that there is less nitrogen dissolved into the bloodstream of a Nitrox user at the same time and depth as someone breathing normal air. Therefore, using Nitrox lets you stay at certain depths for longer. You also benefit by shorter surface intervals due to less nitrogen outgasing required, and at the end of the day you'll feel less fatigued from the reduced physiological effort of outgasing nitrogen. NITROX enhances safe diving.

How?

Our certified gas-blender technicians will pump your tank to the required O2 content and then analyze it. Before the dive, you'll analyze your own tank with a second analyzer and sign a sheet confirming the O2 content in your tank and your maximum depth. Then you'll slip into the water with all the benefits of NITROX.

Fish 'n Fins has a partial pressure blending system. We use medical grade O2 and we blend it with Hyper Active filtered HP compressed air. We use two different dive tanks: Yellow/Green tanks for NITROX and Blue SCUBA tanks for air. Two separate filling stations enable us to fill both NITROX and Air tanks at the same time.