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As one who lives in the low altitude/overwater world most of the time, good object lesson here to get feathered immediately and not screw around trying a restart - I'm satisfied that it's well established that a properly loaded airplane will fly just fine on one motor, especially at low altitude. The caveat is not to get in such a hurry that the wrong engine gets feathered. My procedures specify that both pilots will verify the correct engine with each other, or in a single pilot operation, touch the control and verbalize it before activating.
I'm dubious about having the gear down for a ditching for fear of a flipover, as in this case. During the couple of years we used a 336 for the marine surveys I worried about that the whole time. Would rather egress with the airplane upright and the fuselage awash than have four of us in heavy survival suits trying to extricate ourselves while hanging upside down.
But all-in-all, I'd say this guy did a pretty good job.
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