The boys done good!
1. Professional well trained crew.
2. Controlled ditching in the sea.
3. 18 pax and crew walk (swim) away with it.
Regardless of the initial cause, the crew did an excellent job and have potentially saves lives - no mean feat. Pilots do normally have a sense of self preservation, the more they invoke this, the fewer lives may be lost. The temptation to persevere those extra few yards or miles to an apparant 'safe haven', has caused more problems than those who have taken the more conservative path.
Well done chaps (chapesses).
Doc