Ever seen that show 1000 ways to die on Spike channel?
I saw an episode the other day where a couple of girls were killed by walking into a flooded basement, where an electrical outlet had been submerged. Is this possible? I'm thinking that if the outlet was submerged (first off, the breaker would probably trip, but if it didn't...), current would just flow from L to N inside the plug (or through the shortest distance of water to the nearest ground) , and the water would be safe. In my mind, I can't see the current flowing out through the socket, across a room full of water, up through a leg, torso, heart, and back down through the other leg, back across the water, and back into the outlet. The only way you should get electrocuted is if you complete a circuit, which you shouldn't be able to do by standing in a flooded basement with a flooded outlet. They showed a regular 120v outlet and then their "expert" - a 20-ish blonde chick said that there was 440V passing through their hearts.
BTW, don't their "experts" seem a little fishy? they always seem underqualified, or they just plain don't state their qualification.
I saw an episode the other day where a couple of girls were killed by walking into a flooded basement, where an electrical outlet had been submerged. Is this possible? I'm thinking that if the outlet was submerged (first off, the breaker would probably trip, but if it didn't...), current would just flow from L to N inside the plug (or through the shortest distance of water to the nearest ground) , and the water would be safe. In my mind, I can't see the current flowing out through the socket, across a room full of water, up through a leg, torso, heart, and back down through the other leg, back across the water, and back into the outlet. The only way you should get electrocuted is if you complete a circuit, which you shouldn't be able to do by standing in a flooded basement with a flooded outlet. They showed a regular 120v outlet and then their "expert" - a 20-ish blonde chick said that there was 440V passing through their hearts.
BTW, don't their "experts" seem a little fishy? they always seem underqualified, or they just plain don't state their qualification.