Things that go through my mind.....
I can't help but wondering how I might have handled the pending emergency with the hindsight that the captain did not have at the time, of course. Not being familiar with 2 meter seas or what it would be like to ditch there, I wonder if it would be feasible to hover as low as possible to allow the passengers time to prepare? Would it be feasible to touch down on the water to unload the MR gearbox with RPM at flight idle to stabilize the ship and keep the heat on until rescue arrives? I'm sure that we've all thought about it. If the same thing happened to you tomorrow, what would you do? What could you do?