+1. Except for the damage. I was about to report the same idea.
My thinking though was that there could be 2 landfills and a new tile:
Cheap landfill: only works near the shore in shallow water. You throw a little dirt in the water and you are above sea level and have normal ground.
Large landfill: much more expensive. You first have to fill in all that ocean so it takes a lot of resources. Can only be placed on normal water.
Landing / Swimming Platform: It's a path tile like stone path and relatively cheap. Takes wood and maybe empty barrels to create and can be placed on shallow water or water but not deep water. Should be relatively cheap. Once placed pumps, inserters, belts, power poles, combinators, lamps can be placed on it. But not assemblers or furnaces (or tanks?). It's not a replacement for landfill but just for building docks.
Deep water can't be filled at all. It's basically bottomless. And with the big deep sea waves a landing platform would be unstable. Deep water should start far from shore and maybe not in the starting area at all.