seeker242
Contributor
The truth of the matter
First of all, there are not two schools of thought.
People on the innerwebs seem to have this idea that PADI says that you should always use the suit.
That's probably because of what it says in the AOW manual under the dry suit chapter. It says "Use a BCD for surface flotation and backup buoyancy control. Underwater, use your dry suit to control buoyancy"