Depends on the details and the difficulty of the situation. I'm not sure that gliding a plane into the water is really challenging enough to be considered an act of heroism. If it is something that 99% of commercial pilots can handle as well, is it an act of heroism? Consider getting your car onto the emergency lane when your engine dies. If you do this, are you a hero?
I would consider Alfred Haynes (UA 232) to be much more of a hero as he faced a far more challenging situation trying to land a DC-10 that had all hydraulics fail due to a blown turbine on the #2. No rudder, no flaps, no elevator, no nothing. He with help managed to steer the plane to a crash landing at an airport by modulating the throttles of the two functional engines.
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