I am looking for suggestions. I am still trying to get my GUE fundamentals tech pass after a year. My biggest problem like most people is not good enough buoyancy control. I train in full tech gear with steel doubles, drysuit, can light etc in 20 ft of water with normally very bad vis. When I am trying to do 5 ft interval deco stops to the surface with no line by gauge only I generally bounce around way to much. As much as 5 ft. At this point I can't see much of anything except my gauge and I have no visual reference point to go by other than the gauge. If I have a visual reference like a line things are much better. If I shoot an SMB things are not so bad either since I get some tactile feed back from the line tension and I can be slightly negative. I train a minimum of 2 times a week so I don't think it is lack of effort just lack of technique. Anybody have this kind of issue and overcome it? How did you do it and what are you breathing patterns like. Some people claim they can detect very small changes in depth by ear pressure. So far I can't. I often can't see anything other then particles in the water which appear to float up or down if I am in motion. My gauge like most is not instantaneous so I could be up several ft before it registers that fact and at 5 or 10 ft that 2 ft change make a big difference and it is not easy to correct once it occurs. I am wide open to constructive suggestions.
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