Over water...if the engine does stop ...then with the prop standing up, unmoving, I guess exfocx is "statically" correct.
Then one considers the options available.!!
Forget the engine ,it has absolutely no idea where it is , over water or jungle covered mountains.
Its all in the pilots head. And where you fly depends on the risks you are prepared to take. and the preparations you have made in the unlikely event of...
....pocketa, pocketa, BANG.! and.silence but for the wind noise.
A forced landing sure does concentrate the mind..!!