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bthielen
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I'm a little confused. I read the newsletter article from Mike Holt Enterprises this morning about a woman that drowned while swimming in electrically charged water due to an air conditioner malfunction on an ungrounded system of a houseboat. What I don't understand is how does a voltage potential exist across her body, significant enough to kill her, if she is immersed in the current? For example, is it not true that high power line persons work on live power by becoming one with the power line? I've seen Discovery programs where helicopter workers do this.
My first thought was that she was in contact with the boat and the water at the same time which would make sense however the one person that tried to swim toward her claimed he was suffering paralysis while trying to swim toward her, which seems to suggest no contact with the lake bottom.
Anyone have an explanation?
Bob
My first thought was that she was in contact with the boat and the water at the same time which would make sense however the one person that tried to swim toward her claimed he was suffering paralysis while trying to swim toward her, which seems to suggest no contact with the lake bottom.
Anyone have an explanation?
Bob