I just returned from a week at CoCo View and breifly watched a senerio being performed. Not sure if it was from a rescue class or part of a DM course, I was to busy diving to pay that much attention.
While I was kicking out to the Prince Albert I pondered breifly how much fun it would be do conduct a rescue class there and have a missing diver on the Prince Albert or under one of the ledges on CoCo View or Newmans Wall instead of some silty, cold lake that I use.
I am in the group that a diver should consider taking a class like rescue in the conditions they are most likely to dive. If your plans are to dive primarily in warm tropical waters, then I say go for it. I am sure Patty could teach you a thing or two.
I for one would hate to be you, spending a day upstairs in the classroom, looking out at the view, seeing the boats heading off to the reef or watching divers come back from a drop off dive.
I would be afraid I would get to distracted. Ohhh look, a seahorse. Ahh what the heck we'll find Joe later.