I was wearing a new 7mil BARE wetsuit, hood and gloves. (Suit was new, hood and gloves were not) I read somewhere that new suits are a little more buoyant, so maybe that will change as I use it more. I did check weight after the dive with 500psi left in the tank. Completely emptied the bc and laid flat. I was hovering just off the bottom...as I was breathing in I would start floating to the surface a little...then back down after but never really hitting the sea floor. I started off the dive with 32lbs of ballast but wasn't enough and I was floating, so we added an extra 4 lbs and that worked. I was told that weight should be 10% of body weight plus 8lbs as a starting point. Which was the 36 pounds. We started lower than that at 32 due to the steel tank, but ended up having to add once I was in the water. Diving wise, I felt fine with the weight and was able to balance out neutral. I'm fluffy, so that probably doesn't help