You've already gotten plenty of positive feedback, but I'll also chime in to say you made the right call. Always got to be ready to throw in the towel on big water. Sometimes it's tough to make that decision because you can always go a little further, and you don't realize you're in a bad spot until you're in a really bad spot.
Leaving out crab pots too long or losing them isn't ideal, but if you die trying to retrieve them...you still lose the crab pots. And then you're dead, too, which is also not ideal.