Kite accidentally anchored to buoy

I had a novel experience kiting yesterday which I thought I'd share as it was not a scenario I had anticipated. Was wave riding up the coast, fell off, was body dragging back to board, then noticed lines had gotten caught on an orange ocean buoy which then anchored the kite in strong winds with considerable force. I was also then anchored to buoy which was now being pulled underwater by lateral pull from the kite. I used my safety release to get completely free but bar/lines were still caught on buoy which I eventually released, although a knife might have been handy. Lessons learnt: steer clear of ocean buoys and consider getting a knife if you don't already. Not sure if others have had similar experiences?

Don't most harnesses come with a line cutter inbuilt in them?

Not so novel... had a buoy get tangles in the high-Y of my Crossbow; was weighted down with a bag, so it kept getting pulled pint of the water. Naturally, my knife had gone AWOL too. By the time I freed the buoy, my board had drifted off up the river... suspiciously disappearing, even though I went searching as soon as I got to the beach. ****ing fisherman assholes.

Yep happened to me, pretty sh1t experience.

The first time I was in this situation I was fine just pulled the line over the boy so the last time this happened I thought, no worries will be easy. However I got the buoy and couldn't free the tangled line. I started getting dragged under, panicked a bit because I was in my boots and I knew my safety leash doesn't release very well so I ended up unhooking and unclipping the leash.

Then I took my boots off, tried to keep board from drifting into kite whilst trying to untie line from buoy but was too deep and I couldn't see anything. Pretty tired at this stage so i swam to the shore and droped my board off then swam back to kite. (At the start the kite kept moving around the wind window but thankfully had stopped and kite was straight downwind not really moving). So then I deflate the kite a little bit, careful not to let water in, detached the lines and swam back to the shore with the kite. Finally then swam back out where the buoy is now back on the surface and then unwrapped the lines.

I was pretty tired after this stage but shows how having a decent level of fitness is very useful in some situations. Moral of the story f*ck them buoys.