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[JoelW]

Punky,

I thought that the class was well worth the time, cost and effort. By the time all was said and done, it ran $275 per person. That wasn't too bad a deal in my book for bringing in 3 pretty amazing instructors. I saw one of them the other night on the Discovery Channel as one of the planners and divers on the Brittanic expedition in '99.

As far as experience goes, I know a couple of pretty experienced tech divers who felt that they learned a lot in the DIRF class. I know that I did. I now spend a chunk of each dive since the class doing skills practicing. I would like to take the class again just to see how I would do.

I don't know that there will be another class in Minneapolis. It will take a group who want to run it on their own. None of the stores in town are interested in sponsoring one. If you were going to travel to take the class I would recommend Seattle. The conditions are a little more like Minnesota than Florida. That is where a couple of us were going to go before we decided to import the class.

JoelW