Nitrox

Hyperoxic gas mixtures are not found in nature and therefore must be created or blended by humans. The scuba industry has at least sixty years of experience in dealing with compressed gas and perhaps only two decades of experience in dealing with nitrox. Much has been learned in those decades about the creation of nitrox, […]

The use of gases other than air for recreational, scientific and public safety diving is a relatively recent event. As late as the 1990s there was a great disagreement among prominent people in the diving industry regarding the safety of allowing divers to breathe gas mixtures other than air. Nitrox, or enriched air nitrox, is