[emcbride81]

It amazes me also...I think that most DIs, regardless of agency, push people through too quickly. I know that I was one of those overweighted dives in Coz back in 1999...blew through gas quickly and had to buddy breathe off the DM every dive. I hated it, I just thought it was me...then in 2006 after having been frustrated with diving and stopped for 6 years, I went out with Dive with Martin in Coz and the DM told me to drop my weight on the second dive because, once again, I had to buddy breathe off of him on the first...I took off 8 pounds..I had been at 24lbs...and BAM, neutral buoyancy...I then fell back in love with diving. All of that frustration because noone taught me proper buoyancy...I guess I needed to take the specialty class for that one.