Ok, hate to take a stab at the guy but most of you seem to feel luck played a large part.
Logic tells me that he still had airspeed on his side and possibly a RAT deployed to provide crude control. It just seems SO logical to me to impact water with the wing engines at a low AOA (seeing is believing). A good old saying I thrive on is that luck is where opportunity meets preparedness.
I would be disappointed if this experience does not influence future training, understand that not all water ditching have the opportunity to land in a bay or river. I was just amazed to be able in my opinion to call this a controlled crash if the crew had less control over the aircraft than I give them credit for.
Hey, another factor that I neglected to consider is that most jet engines provide full hydraulic power from 5-10% N2 or N3. Keeping the A/S dumping into the engines (low AOA) may have provided better control if the spool driving the gearbox was able to spin.