That and a Ten Thousand Foot long and 150 foot wide concrete runway that is firmly affixed to old Mother Earth and a precision ILS system and no grading of the approach and landing.
Yes, there are never any accidents on 10,000' runways.
This accident was not a result of the landing surface being a boat....but of pilot ineptness. If it had been to a 12,000' runway or the Edwards lakebed, with this approach technique and auto-throttle system error, he'd have probably never made it to brick one and might have even done some damage to the landing gear at impact on the approach end overrun or from a glancing blow to the precision ILS lighting stanchions while attempting to spool up off of IDLE.