Wayward Son
Contributor
2 tanks inshore trips out of PCB currently cost about $70. Offshore $85. Offshore is maybe 11 or so miles out of the pass.
The O is 25 miles each way. At $145 you're looking at less than double the cost of an offshore trip in PCB. The fuel costs are part of it, not unusual for a dive boat to get 1 to 2 MPG. The time is another, as someone else noted a boat making a run to the O isn't making 2 trips per day.
I know a couple of people with private boats who dive it. Even splitting actual costs for that, with no crew being paid & the owner getting nothing but each divers share of the gas costs it'll cost me most of $100 to ride share. And he's not eating the insurance premium a commercial charter or 6 pack has, nor paying any crew, nor making a profit at all.
The O is 25 miles each way. At $145 you're looking at less than double the cost of an offshore trip in PCB. The fuel costs are part of it, not unusual for a dive boat to get 1 to 2 MPG. The time is another, as someone else noted a boat making a run to the O isn't making 2 trips per day.
I know a couple of people with private boats who dive it. Even splitting actual costs for that, with no crew being paid & the owner getting nothing but each divers share of the gas costs it'll cost me most of $100 to ride share. And he's not eating the insurance premium a commercial charter or 6 pack has, nor paying any crew, nor making a profit at all.