Just checked the log and did a total of 1,495 hours above the waters of Bass Strait single engine. Must admit used to ponder the survival chances watching the spume being blown off the wave tops by the 70 knot zephyrs. Never had a failure though, different story when we went to twins, many precautionary shutdowns or reduce engine to idle, and two full blown chew up the turbine and spit the bits out failures. Strangely both failures in the same aircraft, first #2 then #1 about 18 months apart.