Water landing

I think most people avoid listening to the water related safety instructions at the start of a flight for obvious reasons. No one thinks we're going to land on water and all get out and survive. So why learn the directions? Until, of course, it happens...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/nyregion/18plane.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

Early indications, as described by the safety agency, were that the cockpit and cabin crews got through an emergency “by the book,” but it was an event that exists almost entirely in books alone; big planes seldom come down in water in a controlled way.