Bauer,
A while ago you said, "Only complication I see is that while doing scuba, things can get impossibly ugly using a reel for strong pelagics. Picture shooting a sizeable amberjack, and having taken some of your reel line decides to gift wrap you in it (which is standard behaviour for shot AJ). Id rig a float. "
Yes, unfortunately I had that on a scuba run a couple of weeks ago... A huge Jack for here, around 6.5 Kilos, ran the line of my C4 around the cylinder, first stage, my neck, one of my legs, etc. and then decided to take off for somewhere in Dubai dragging me upside down adn backwards... My buddy swore he could hear my screaming. He would have helped but was laughing too hard as the fish drug me over the top of a wreck and across the sea floor before I could pull him in and finish it... and that was with no reel, just a double wrap. (My aim is getting a LOT better though after that)