Yes and I'd like world peace and to save all the animals and all the hungry......alcina:See, now I'd go the other way...I'd skip PPB. Those skills should be incorporated into EVERY dive you do on the Advanced Course anyway...they are skills you use on every dive. IMHO I'd do a different specialty on the AOW and work on my buoyancy on every dive. To me PPB is about as useful as Boat and I'd rather teach (and learn) it in "real" dives. YMMV