PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver Course
PADI Enriched Air Diver Course in Hurghada
PADI's most popular specialty: learn to dive with enriched air nitrox for longer no-decompression times and shorter surface intervals. One day, one dive, and a certification you'll use on every dive trip afterwards.
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Enriched Air Diver is the most popular specialty in the PADI system for a simple reason: nitrox gives you more time underwater. By breathing air with a higher oxygen percentage (and correspondingly less nitrogen), your no-decompression limits stretch significantly — on the typical 18-25 metre Red Sea reef profile, that can mean substantially longer bottom times and shorter surface intervals between dives. On a multi-day dive package, nitrox effectively buys you extra minutes on every single dive.
The course fits into one day. The theory session covers how enriched air works, its depth limits, and the two skills that make nitrox diving safe: analysing your own tank with an oxygen analyser before every dive, and setting your dive computer for the mix you are breathing. You then put it into practice with an enriched-air dive on the reef, logging the analysis and planning exactly as you will for the rest of your diving life.
The minimum age is 12 and the prerequisite is an entry-level certification (Open Water Diver or equivalent). The course fee includes equipment, the PADI materials and certification fee, lunch and drinks on board, and transfers within Hurghada. Once certified, enriched-air fills for your daily diving cost €10 for two tanks — most divers make that back in sheer extra reef time on the first day.
Highlights
What's Included
- Full dive equipment
- PADI instructor & course materials
- PADI certification fee
- Lunch, coffee, tea, water & soft drinks on board
- Free hotel transfer from/to all hotels within Hurghada
- Dive Safe Package — medical care from licensed physicians before, during and after your trip — and a fitness check before you dive whenever you would like one. No extra cost.
Not Included
- Marine park entrance fee (€5 per person per day)
- Hotel transfer for Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh & El Gouna: €20 per day per car
Dive Safe Package — medical care is on us
Diving with us includes medical care from licensed physicians — before your dive, on the day, and after your trip has ended. If anything comes up once you are back at your hotel, you are still ours to look after: call us and we arrange the doctor, at no extra cost.
A dive medical fitness check before you get in the water is entirely up to you. Some divers simply like the reassurance — say the word and we arrange it with a licensed physician at no extra cost, whenever suits you. And if the physician advises against diving, we refund your booking in full.
This is the whole price
The PADI certification fee is already inside the price above — along with your equipment, instructor and course materials. Worth checking before you compare: some dive centres quote the course on its own and add the manual and certification at the desk, typically €90–€130. Others include it, as we do. So compare what each price covers, not just the number.
What is genuinely not included is listed above, in full — nothing else is added at the boat.
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Dive sites in this area
Reefs this trip may visit. The captain chooses each day's sites by wind, current and conditions on the morning — so treat this as the area, not a schedule.
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