Originally Posted by
BusAirDriver
The winds and the flaps would have made the exact aiming point very hard to judge. If you look at the sea, you can see there is a fairly strong wind. You can see the white in the waves.
Also I could see at least 5 people in the sea, so there would have been people in the sea too. He chose the "best" option, out of many bad options available.
The people in the surf are only knee deep in water, 20 feet further off shore would have been the best and doable option.