I sometimes travel to Calgary, would that be north enough or do you think I should go further?My opinion. I wouldn't do an IDC up north in Feb.
Edit:wow totally misread this, maybe I should get new contacts, but still funny.
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I sometimes travel to Calgary, would that be north enough or do you think I should go further?My opinion. I wouldn't do an IDC up north in Feb.
I believe that your LDS owner still needs two AI certifications for his master instructor's certification.
See if he'll make a deal with you. He'll also do it on the weekends or nights. You can do the OWSI component separately with EK afterwards so you don't have to spend as many days off. We did ours over three weekends with EK. On the fourth weekend, we took the IE. More driving, but you can then save your vacation days for a real vacation.
A good IDC would not be my idea of a vacation. You probably don't want to have any distractions that might be present in Florida or the Caribbean either.
Why do you say this? I know how to dive in green water with 3ft vis? I also can speak the local language fluently, what is there locally that I might not learn in Florida where it is warm in February and the water is clear and salty? now if you mean not Roatan then please expand as to why you think this. is the instruction very different from IDC to IDC?
I do not expect any IDC to teach me all I need to know to produce the type of divers I intend to produce I expect to have much OJT till I refine my craft but it is a start and I do not expect my first students to suffer any even if I do find the one bad IDC on the planet.