drrich2
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If you are a vacation diver, celebrate that fact! join the IDEA vacation diving fraternity with other vacation divers and have a course content that really speaks to your experience. Network, meet up at IDEA resort events, share your experiences online.
Under the current system, a person can complete the OW course and by his/her own choice self-restrict to guided tropical vacation diving. Judging from views I've seen expressed in other threads about the quality of much of the 'diver crop' turned out by mainstream OW courses these days, it's hard to imagine this 'Resort Diver certification course' would please people by having lower training than the current OW course.
While I can understand the logic of more narrowly defined cert.s (e.g.: tropical diver, cold water ocean diver, etc...), seems to me that under the current system people are advised to restrict themselves to conditions as good or better than what they trained in, and grow slowly into more demanding conditions via additional training or mentorship.
Richard.