I called BS on the diver who said he never uses a bailout bottle on shallow jobs, then I watched him do a 22 foot pump intake in Galveston

Jennifer Flores · 2026-10-08T12:50:03.208201+00:00

This guy kept saying a bailout was dead weight on anything under 30 feet and I figured he was just too cheap to service his regs. Then we did a 22 foot intake job in Galveston and he had a 6 cubic foot pony strapped on the whole time, he just meant he doesn't carry a full 40. I felt like a dumbass for waiting half the job to ask him. Now I'm wondering if I'm hauling too much gas on shallow work. What size pony are you guys actually running under 30 feet?

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I called BS on the diver who said he never uses a bailout bottle on shallow jobs, then I watched him do a 22 foot pump intake in Galveston | Commercial Divers - Thought Shares