Those who suggest 'chuting into shallow water are dreaming. You won't have that sort of control. The BRS needs, I think, something like 800 feet altitude to deploy and decelerate the airplane, and in the remaining altitude the wind could do nasty things. You could end up most anywhere you don't want to.
Worse, the idea that you're going to easily find shallow water is a fantasy. This is not the East coast. You won't find a lot of nice flat beaches. The mountains are high, steep, and often plunge directly into the ocean. In some areas there are strong currents to contend with, floating ice, and other non-funny stuff. You get wet, you're shortly dead. Any dry clothing in the airplane will be wet, or sunk with it. Transport Canada says this:
Surviving a ditching is one thing, but immersion and the time spent in the cold water is possibly even more hazardous. Ensure that all equipment needed for flotation and the prevention of hypothermia from a lengthy exposure to cold water is on board and available. Brief passengers on their expected actions including their responsibilities for the handling of emergency equipment, once the aircraft has stopped in the water.
About the only good thing about ditching is the unlikelyhood of fire.
Go to Google Earth and click on some of the pictures along the northern BC and southern AK coast. It's not Florida or the Carolinas. Go to a local lake in the winter, chop a hole in the ice, and spend some time in the water. Then remember that seawater can be colder than that without freezing. All along that coast there are glaciers shedding ice all summer and rivers dumping ice water into the sea.
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