One concern with the GoPro float is that it can come off in a crash. At surf speeds you're looking for that's not likely a problem, however. The float is attached to the rear door with a sticky mount and in a wakeboard sped crash, the water can detach the float from the camera housing. This happened to me, but luckily I had a secondary attachment and wasn't relying on the float alone, otherwise my camera would have beat the bottom of the lake. After that I bought a tube of aqua seal glue and ran a bead around the float and the read door. I'm also much more careful to use a leash and consider the float only a backup plan, not the primary method of saving my camera.
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