Or coming off the catapult in the middle of the turn, doing a barrel roll.
LOL...planes will NOT slide into the water, and if they do...the plane captains might just as well jump in and go over with them!
Those planes are probably a minimum of 12 point tie down with chains when they do that, I would guess, and maybe even more.
And there is a line chief growling at young plane captains that those chains damn well better have no slack in them...and if he found a saggy chain, there might be a swift kick in the ass!
Oh, wait. That was in a different Navy...
As for the water skiing, we all commented constantly on how much fun that would be, all the while knowing it was completely possible. Those things can move.
When I was on the Kennedy crossing the Atlantic on one of my cruises, they did a high speed run for about six hours. It didn’t start until after I had hit the rack and fallen asleep, and I woke up in a red-lit compartment that was right under the arrestor cables in the aft portion of the ship right under the flight deck to an intense thumping that was so loud I was alarmed. I would describe it later like this:
Imagine laying supine on a metal desk, and someone underneath the desk is kicking the bottom of it at a rate of about 240 times a minute. (If you pound your fist on a desk hard about 24 times in six seconds, it is a good approximation of what it sounded like!)
I put my clothes on and went down to the fantail, and the mountain of water the ship kicked up was amazing!