The crew got a medal of bravery
aye and there's the rub - get it right and you're heroes, get it wrong and you're zeroes with every likelihood of turning yourselves into casualties as well.
There is no DS solution to this, if you find yourself in the situation you will be the only one to be able to make the judgement call and, for most people, watching a person die isn't much of an option.
In some ways you are better off in a lighter helo with a lower disc loading as the downwash of many modern twins is enough to submerge the person in the water.
The real problem is idiots who insist on walking on ice despite regular, well-publicised occurrences like this one
