I'm not an electrical engineer, but my lab work involves relatively a lot of electronics.
Dman had it right - using a GFI will make the mains power safer. But there's a lot of "umph" stored in the capacitor in the strobe and that's NOT protected by using a GFI, nor by anything you can do, short of redesigning the strobe circuit itself. If a head (or it's socket) gets wet, it shorts. If the shorting path has a body in it, the body absorbs some of the energy. Ba-da-bing.
There is no easy, hazard-free way to work with water and strobes. I think - and this is ONLY opinion - that you'd actually be safer to use hot lights off a GFI circuited AC mains than to use strobes.
BTW - That IS one incredible image. Love the eyes. Great impact.
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