Gas Blender
Learn to prepare and mix gas for scuba diving
The PADI Gas Blender Course with AQUASUB SCUBA DIVING CENTRE
The PADI Gas Blender course is designed to provide divers with the knowledge and skills necessary to blend and analyze nitrox and other gas mixes for scuba diving. The course covers topics such as the advantages of using custom gas mixes, the different types of gases used in scuba diving, and how to properly blend and analyze gas mixes to ensure their safety and effectiveness.
During the course, you will learn about the different types of gas mixing equipment, including compressors and blending panels, as well as the importance of proper labeling and storage of blended gases. You will also learn how to properly analyze gas mixes to ensure their accuracy, and how to properly fill and maintain nitrox and other gas cylinders.
To enroll in the PADI Gas Blender course, you must have a minimum of the PADI Enriched Air Diver certification or equivalent, and be at least 18 years old. The course typically includes both classroom and practical sessions, and culminates in several hands-on blending and analysis sessions.
The PADI Gas Blender course is an important training program for anyone who wants to expand their diving knowledge and skills, or for those who work in the scuba diving industry as gas fillers or dive shop technicians. Proper gas blending and analysis is critical to the safety and effectiveness of scuba diving, and should only be attempted by those who are properly trained and prepared.
Being a gas blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort. This course teaches you how to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-based gases using one or more blending methods.
Course Overview
The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is the most popular diver specialty course and the number of technical divers is on the rise, which means that lots of scuba divers want enriched air and gas blends. The Tec Gas Blender course teaches you to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-blend gases using one or more blending methods. Being the blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort and your work allows other divers to do what they love to do - scuba dive.
If you're a PADI Enriched Air Diver and are at least 18 years old, you can enroll in a Tec Gas Blender course.
Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply - ask your Tec Gas Blender Instructor.
What You Will Learn
The Tec Gas Blender course includes three practical application sessions, but no dives. During independent study and instructor-led review, you learn:
- About the advantages and disadvantages of different blending methodologies.
- To blend enriched air and trimix blends to within one percent of the target mix.
- About the potential hazards related to handling oxygen, and how to manage those risks.
- To demonstrate the steps for oxygen cleaning equipment, along with the requirements for oxygen service.
Prerequisites & Requirements
- Be at least 18 years old
- Certified Enriched Air Nitrox Diver or above
Equipment Requirements
- No Required Equipment
- Oxygen Analyzer (recommended)
For all your learning materials and equipment, contact AQUASUB SCUBA DIVING CENTER.
Paperwork:
- Student Enrollment Form - All students must complete the intake form
- Liability and Risk Acknowledgement Forms - All students must complete, print and sign the questionaire and liability releases.
- Medical Questionaire - If Form 2 has ANY questions you have answered YES to, you must complete form 3 and have it signed by your personal physician
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Many shipwrecks are often found in deeper water. That’s why the PADI Deep Diver course is a natural companion to the PADI Wreck Diver course. Sometimes you can take these two specialties concurrently.
Other training to consider is the PADI Enriched Air Diver course on your way to PADI Master Scuba Diver.
For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with one of the AQUASUB SCUBA DIVING CENTER Team members.