Your accident could have been much worse. You could have been coming back with your tankard full, and been forced to try to finish it off while you were in the air.
One of my favorite aerodynamic exercises I ever witnessed on the waterfront was when my old friend Gary Clevidence was making his way down the float after a late night song party, guitar case in hand, in the pitchy black darkness, and stumbled over the tie-up rail along the edge of the float. Just before he disappeared under the surface, he reached out and placed his guitar case onto the float. We all cheered!