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I mainly dive 35m about an hour, I take a 7l ali with 30%.
I weight myself with as little lead as poss the 7L being part of that weight.
I can control my ascent no problem and can hold a stop at 3m no problem.
I control my boyancy with my suite, right or wrong I am happy with that.

I am now building up dives to do mod2/3 and carrying a ali 80cf as well.
I now find out I can't consider the bottles as weight incase I have to ditch them or pass them off. I understand this is correct and obviously I am following the rules.

Its just now I am dropping like a brick. I am filling the suit to stop squeeze and controlling the boyancy with the wing. This is out of my comfort zone and feel I am starting again. Yes I'm coping and maybe a few more dives and I will be ok.

I can't help feeling what if I don't ever ditch or pass off the bottles. I don't think I would ever ditch them and I don't think I would pass them off unless I new I didn't need them.
Why not consider them as weight and go back to using my suit for boyancy