High level float bags - not a good idea
Gents,
The last helicopter I am aware of with high levels floats was the venerable Navy Saunders Roe Wasp.
Imagine ditching with high level floats. You are immediately accepting your head will likely be close too or under water even in a calm sea. Now you have to exit, complete with all your gear, and evade the massive float bags positioned alongside the fuselage above your head, body and life jacket.
If the plan is to supplement the low floats with high ones to stabilise the helicopter from rollover, now there is even less room to get out.
Maybe I have missed the point but really. Is this kind of issue relevant to what has just happened taking into account the success of all other ditchings.
DB