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c/commercial-diversverawhiteverawhite22d agoProlific Poster

TIL the average commercial dive team spends over $15k a year just on helium for saturation mixes

I was crunching numbers from last quarter's gas bill and that stat from the NOAA diving manual really hit me, do you guys factor helium costs into your bids upfront or just eat it as overhead?
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felix_hayes64
Yeah we used to just eat it too but then we started breaking it out as a separate line item on invoices. Clients push back less when they see it's a real cost instead of us just jacking up the daily rate.
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riley_miller25
Honestly, we just roll it into the overhead and hope for the best.
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sullivan.spencer
Does the client ever ask what that overhead even covers though?
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