No thread drift, so I'll let it go after this, but for the benefit of any private flyers who like to go over the oggin.
You go in the open ocean (out of sight of land) untrained and unequipped you are pretty much odds on favorite to die. Ultra low level increases the hazard enormously (birds, waves, swell, reaction times to control your ditching, disorientation, time to restart the donk, out of radar cover etc etc).
Monumental stupidity is not over egging it one jot.
Qualification: Advanced Sea Survival Instructor, trained at RAF Mountbatten 1985, 5000 hours maritime, searched for many a light aircraft pilot, never found one.
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