I have had the kite lines tangle around me a couple of times in real light wind when the kite fell in the water.

I use to ride really light wind a lot. Most of my experiences with kite lines wrapping up around me are when they are slack. The act of swimming in, while lines are around you, pretty much "stirs up" the lines and wraps them around you. I feel I almost drown one day due to the lines getting more and more constricted around my body the more I moved to swim. As you said Rick, I didn't see the lines, I only noticed I was wrapped up after it happened. By the time I was wrapped up (pretty good) it was sort of too late to unwrap them. I didn't have a knife on me (bad).

I ended up just chilling (very minimal movement to stay afloat) and waiting for the current to bring me back in. Obviously if it was light offshore wind/current, I would have been screwed. I was lucky to have the current take me to shore. Been wrapped up on crab traps too...