Another hot snatch electrocuted

An Electrified lake??

[quote] An Electrified lake??

Yes, I’m electrifying, if you believe my lies.

Why was a lake electrified?

Now I have to worry if a lake has faulty wiring?

The lake owner must really hate fish.

There was an exposed wire from a private dock near where they jumbled into the water. No way to know that before it's too late.

Those homeowners are going to have one huge lawsuit.

It’s electric!!!

Just don't be the first one to jump in, R4.

His Friends were electrocuted too, R9 but somehow survived it.

That's scary. Poor kid had just graduated in May.

Murdoch NY Post links give clickdollars and SEO to people who hate gays.

Engineer/electrician gays explain to me how a single faulty … whatever could electrify an entire lake. Does it not get diluted by the sheer volume of water (it is a big lake)?

R13 oh my. Water is the perfect host for electricity. Electricity currents take the path of least resistance. Water embodies that. Haha. See what I did there.

Electrical* currents

R13 - it looks to be a reservoir, so yeah - big and deep.

I don't understand either. Water isn't a great conductor of electricity - the minerals in it are.

Seems like it would spread on the top - and he just had the bad luck to jump in when nothing else was on the water to conduct the current?

Still - big lawsuit here. That poor family - going home to Colorado with one less person.

Trump was right after all!

Watt the fuck?

It’s exactly like static electricity in your body.

You don’t get shocked until your finger (the positive) gets close enough to the doorknob (the negative), where the energy wants to flow next. In the water, you’re the grounding object and the source of the charge is usually a boat in a lake, or a light when in a pool. The greater the charge, the further it can travel through the water to pass into you. The distance is governed by a ratio between the amount of charge and the resistance of whatever is between the positive and negative poles.

This is why you should never jump into the water of a marina or near an electrified dock, or swim near lots of boats. If you feel tingling or numbness in the water, swim in the direction you came from and get out of the water ASAP.

Most people who die from being electrocuted in water don’t flail around and make sounds like you would expect. The electricity just silently paralyzes them and they sink below the surface.

Few boat owners have any idea that they have an electrical problem because their boats ground into the water and don’t trip any breaker until it’s a large problem and blows fuses. Ferrous metal boats have to have sacrificial parts under the water made of zinc to deal with the corrosion caused by these inevitable shorts in the water near them.

R16, you’re kind of correct but not really. The minerals in the water are much more conductive, but water alone will conduct electricity if the charge is great enough to overcome the resistance (the term used to describe conductivity) in the amount of water between the positive and negative.

The rubber that insulates copper wires in your house will conduct electricity but does it so poorly compared to the copper it’s wrapped around that the resistance is too great for the electricity to pass through it. The copper wire is the “path of least resistance.”

The intellect of this electrician or engineer is sexy.

[quote] going home to Colorado with one less person.

Fewer!

Was the water brackish?

Thank you R21, I have an iron boat and got my Marine Electrician and Corrosion Specialist certifications when I was first getting into it and working as a dock master for my building’s docks.

We were in the middle of a downtown bar area and drunk kids would always try to go onto the docks and inevitably some guy would jump in the water. I had two who didn’t come back up and I believe this is what happened to both of them. You can test the water and see the charge but it’s almost impossible to find the exact boat it is coming from and even then, finding the fault on the boat is just as hard.

It's probably a bad dick electrical connection, not from a boat, a bad wiring job, if a professional did it, watch out, probably a homeowner.

The title of thread is pure false advertising. Thanks for getting my hops up FOR NOTHING OP you jerk. 😆

[quote]going home to Colorado with one less person. Fewer!—Nancy Lee Grahn

Less!!

"A singular noun indicates that there is only one of that person, place, thing, or idea. Less equates to saying not as much, and should be used with these types of nouns."

[quote]There was an exposed wire from a private dock near where they jumped into the water. No way to know that before it's too late.

This is how Julia Garner's character kills two guys in the first season of Ozark. Second one dies when he attempts to help the first one by grabbing him.

Sorry kittydyke, R26. I did not know snatch had another meaning. I grew up with Datalounge, you know.

Wie R24 are you telling me that this is a common and well known problem? Getting electrified close to a dock or marina? I have never heard of this .

So if lightning strikes the beach, am I gonna die?

The NY Trump Post loves sad

It was a plot point in Ozark.

R34, are you also R28?

People say "like" way too much. Either it is or it isn't folks. Every other word is "like". Valley speak is out of control:

“Ever since I first met that kid, I mean, he’s like one of a kind,” friend Alex Schwab told KDVR. “You see him and you just, like, he always has a smile on his face.”

“Still can’t even like process it. I’m so upset by it,” he added.

“Like” has no meaning in these examples. It’s a space-filler, like “um.”

The dad was hotter.

It’s a linguistic pause, an important part of speech