There is a very divergent view of what is and is not acceptable risk.
Waterskiing aircraft is in some places comparatively common. If you do not know that, or the aircraft and pilot's capabilities your view of risk may not be accurate - equally neither may theirs.
However the world full of cotton wool version, where no one is ever hurt and no one ever does anything that someone else might think 'risky' is so dull there is little point of being part of it.