I won't go into a lot of electricity theory here, but remember that in the pack or in the head of a monolite there is a capacitor (or several) that has one purpose and that is to let out a whole lot of energy in a very small amount of time. The power stored in the capacitor on a Vivitar 283 shoe mounted flash is enough to stop your heart.
Probably the "safest" lighting to use around water would be hot lights connected to a ground-fault interrupted circuit. If you are using strobe equipment near water it should be on a GFI circuit as well, but that does nothing to protect against energy stored in the capacitor.
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