If I'm not right at EOL at the next exit, I'm turning the dive and swimming the whole way back.
Unless I can see natural light at the next exit, I'd turn the dive.
I'll swim ahead a couple of hundred feet to get to the nearest but unverified exit.
I'll swim 400-500 feet (a red primary reel distance) to get to the nearest but unverified exit.
If I'm more than halfway, I'll keep swimming to the nearest exit regardless of verification.