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>Joel;
>     "NAUI - Gas Blender"...isn't that like "Jumbo - Shrimp", or "Military -
>Intelligence"?
>T.P.

Actually, it's an surprisingly good course. If this (and the nitrox course
I had a chance to look over) are a sample of what NAUI Tech is going to be
like, I think NAUI tech is going to give the existing tech agencies a real
run for their money.

I took it couple weeks ago, mostly just for fun and to get some legit
credentials, but also to find out what I'd been doing wrong (surprising
little, considering I taught myself mixing/O2 cleaning out of a book) and
found the course very practical and refreshingly free from bullshit - the
approach to cleaning is much closer to what you find the the OXY HACKER
than the liability obcessed clean-room lunacy coming from the SCUBA
manufacturers and some of the tech agencies.
An couple other nice things about it - they let you take the course even if
you aren't an instructor/dive shop employee, and the one course covers O2
cleaning, nitrox and trimix.

However, ultimately any course depends more on the instructor than the
agency or text, and that's where Joel comes in. If the same course was
being taught by some instant tech instructor type who'd just gotten
certified to teach it, I'd say skip it and buy the OXY HACKER instead - it
covers all the same stuff as the NAUI text, and a whole lot more besides.
But Joel has been doing this stuff a long time, and adds a lot of depth and
experience to the course material (besides being able to answer just about
any question you can come up with) and that, for me, was what really made
it worth while.


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