Had a reg blowing bubbles at 60 feet on a pipeline job in Galveston, do you swap it out or ride it up?

Patricia Gonzalez · 2026-09-25T08:50:02.898193+00:00

The exhaust valve on my hat started leaking air bad about 40 minutes into a 90 foot run on a pipeline inspection off Galveston last Tuesday, and I had to decide fast whether to surface and burn the whole dive or just crank the flow and finish the grid. I finished the grid and told the tender to log it, but my supervisor said I should've surfaced the second it started bubbling. What would you have done, keep working or call it?

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