After reading that it made me realize I was very glad I'm not your buddy.You may consider it middle of the road but to other guys like Mad Scientist you're a god among men for doing that water crossing.
By the way if you ever go through water deeper than your airbox intake, you can flip the hood open and have a buddy lay on top of the engine to blow air into the tube.
I can just hear me asking my wife to get out it looks like another deep water crossing...