On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 2:56:33 PM UTC-7, 2G wrote:
Good part was it was late in the day and there were no golfers on this hole:

https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3....l?dsId=8033935

I was in Hawaii when a glider went into the ocean in the 90's. Talking with the pilot several months after he recovered from his injuries was humbling. Due to his own mistakes of fly way too fast on downwind because he had to pee, the rudder of his Duster departed during flutter. The salty wet environment at Dillingham had degraded the plywood. With out a rudder he was experiencing huge yaw with any aileron input. He explained it was a choice of crash landing on the water or land . He choose the water thinking he stood a better chance of surviving. He recalled mentally being prepared for the plane to go inverted or submarine on impact. Having his hand on the belt release. The plane on touching the water, decelerated so quickly it tore the wings off and the cockpit disintegrated. Be went through the nose collecting huge splinters of wood in his legs. He survived only because of some local surfers came to his rescue. So water landings can be very violent on a choppy surface.