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I recently purchased a Waterproof crushed (3.5) neopreme drysuit and have had one pool cession with it. Accourding to the PADI Text & My instructor my BCD is only to be used at the surface and not during the dive: buoyancy to be controlled by adding and venting air from the drysuit. The text further states that the only exceptions to this are 1) when using a neopreme drysuit--not crushed, and for technical divers that use a combination of air in the bcd and drysuit. At our world underwater this weekend I talked to a Technical diver and instructor that told me just to add enough air to avoid suit squeeze and to use the BCD for buoyancy ( I have a rear inflation bcd). My guess that it is easier to control a smaller BCD air space. Is is possible that both situations are correct depending on circumstances? Is there a reason that one method is preferred to the other, could someone give me some reasoning. What do other non PADI agencies teach? Also the neck seal seems a bit tight. I tried to stetch it out around a kitchen canister for a week about 1 & 1/2" smaller than my neck. After abouty an hour and 15 minutes I thought that I wasd going to pop. I was told by my instructor not to trim the neck seal because if there is a small nick perpindicular to neck seal it will conmtinue to tear and I will have to replace it. I was further told to stretch and spray the neck with food grade silicone spray. I would really appreciate a good explination from anyone who has the time.