Someone mentions flying across the channel on here, where there is a statistically small risk that you'll have to do a planned ditching into unwelcoming water, and posters will discuss lifejackets, immersion suits, and rafts. Yet someone deliberately flirts with sudden ditching, and posters defend it, without ever asking if the pilot was prepared.
Discussion is useful but I wouldn't want to specifically tell other people what they must do, everyone should be able to make their own decisions on what risks they are comfortable with as pilots. The pilot may well have been kitted up in full gear for ditching. I'm not defending his choice of clothing I'm making the point that what was being done there is practiced frequently abroad, he looks to have large bushwheels on which give a large footprint and may be vasty experienced in this. It looks like the 500ft rule was obvserved with a good margin and other than personal risk no one else was in danger.