I will add as a scuba diving enthusiast that the sea is a very powerful unforgiving force! Close too you see that energy that power and have to respect it
At 2000 to 5000 feet cocooned in a nice warm invirinment it's unreal!
The shock of one minute being in that vertically distant environment and meeting the Cold sea at close quarters In a ditching must be immense !
Maybe knowing the sea at close quarters makes you more aware ? What do others who sail think ?
I have a friend who years ago was ferrying a Cessna SEP over the North Atlantic he had a fuel transfer problem and ended up with a stopped engine in IMC 200 miles from land
He spiralled down breaking cloud 500 feet ASL and above the only fishing boat in a 100 miles
He was picked up and had to help for the rest of the fishing trip before going back to port days later! How lucky was He ??
Pace