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PCDiver)
And it also eats into your diluent supply if you use it too often. Try to dive without, unless you absolutely need it (e.g. video, ...).
Uh, no, I'm not talking about hitting the dil button. I'm talking about the shift in trim (which, if you're MOVING, results in a shift in buoyancy) that results from breathing patterns - it does on OC too, and is (subconsciously) how you adjust buoyancy on OC once you "get it") - its just different on CC, not absent.
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just imagine what you could have saved by paying for some instruction
Uh, not much, given that (1) you can't buy a card for a homebuild, irrespective of desire to do so, and (2) I've yet to see an OC instructor talk about the finer points of buoyancy and trim control; perhaps its different with CCR instructors, but I doubt it.
I suspect all I'd have become is poorer AND I'd have learned things that might not apply ot the specific rig I dive.