High-percentage oxygen mixes, CNS tracking, and nitrox as a genuine decompression tool rather than just a conservative bottom gas. The essential foundation for all decompression diving — and a significant upgrade to how you plan and execute every dive.
Advanced Nitrox takes you from "nitrox as a conservative bottom gas" to "nitrox as a decompression tool" — which is where it becomes genuinely powerful. If you've been using EAN32 or EAN36 for a while, this course shows you what high-oxygen mixes can actually do when applied properly.
We're talking about mixes up to 100% oxygen. You'll learn what your CNS oxygen clock actually means, how to track it across multiple dives, and why the partial pressure limits exist rather than just memorising numbers. You'll understand how to use high-oxygen mixes to shorten decompression obligations — or to give yourself a bigger margin on no-deco dives. Both are valid, depending on what you're trying to achieve.
Malta is a brilliant place to run this course. The Um El Faroud sits upright on the seabed at 36 metres — right in the sweet spot for Advanced Nitrox training. The MV Karwela is another classic: 45m to the sand, decent decompression potential if you push the bottom time, and enough inside to make equipment management interesting. We use real dive sites with actual purpose, not training pools and imaginary scenarios.
Worth noting: Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures together is the most efficient way to enter technical diving — most divers run them back-to-back as a combined 5–6 day programme. If that's the direction you're heading, mention it when you enquire and we'll structure it accordingly.
What this course won't do is make you a decompression diver — that's the next step. But it absolutely will give you the gas knowledge, CNS tracking skills, and oxygen management discipline that makes decompression diving safe rather than reckless. The foundation matters.
Often run back-to-back with Decompression Procedures as a 5–6 day combined programme — the most efficient path into technical diving. Strongly recommended if you're serious about progressing to trimix.
Advanced Nitrox is the direct prerequisite for Decompression Procedures, which in turn opens the door to Trimix and everything below 40 metres with intent. On its own, it makes you a significantly better diver — you'll understand your gas in a way most recreational divers never do, and you'll use Malta's sites more intelligently for it.