how far from the strike do you have to be to be safe??? or how close to the strike do you have to be to get shocked????
2006-06-25 09:54:36 · 9 answers · asked by JeNe 4 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
I took some a teenaged group of kids swimming and they wouldn't get out...they tryed to argue that the storm was far enough away!!!
2006-06-25 10:00:33 · update #1
Ok.. listen.. you have to think about this one a little bit
IF everytime a lighting hit the water, everything got electrocuted, then there would be no fish in the sea.. so people that said that are not thinking right..
now.. how far do you have to be
Lighting will try to reach ground right? thats the way it works? so it will find the fastest way down.. now Im going out on a limb here, but salt water conducts electricity pretty damn well.. probably better than a human body.. so my guess is, lightning will go straight down into the ocean floor..
now.. this doesnt mean you wont die if its near you, because some electric current might choose a different path, but I would say if you are outside of 100 meters you would be ok. But I would get out of the water when a big storm is coming.. not because of lightning, but because the waves might be too strong to swim in
2006-06-26 02:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Extra Crispy time!
It depends on the volume of water, the size of the lake, the intensity. Lightning is almost always striking the ocean yet the fish aren't all dead.
Good idea to get out when a storm is coming, don't ya think?
2006-06-25 16:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Bill S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to be out of the water, if the lightening strikes the water it doesn't matter how far away from it ou are, it'll hit you and you'll get shocked. therefore, if teh weather is bad, stay as close to the water side as you can and if lighetining comes up get he hel.l out of there, don't risk it coz electricity in teh water is so fast that when the lighting hots teh surface, you'll have time to turn around and then it'll hit you, no matter how far you were removed from the spot where it touched the water!!!
2006-06-26 06:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some people say that if it lightnings in the water ur toast but if it storming 2000 miles across the ocean and the lightning hits the water u wouldn't even know it most likly
2006-06-29 13:05:59 · answer #4 · answered by baustintheboy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be fine unless you get hit directly. Unless the water you are in has a very very large amount of salt to conduct electricity.
What are you doing in a body of water when theres lighting? You speed junky.
2006-06-25 17:00:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not sure but my guess is tht if u see lightening then u should get out of ne kind of water......and if they won't get out then tell them tht if they get out since it's lightening then wait 10 minbutes and if u don't see ne more lightenin between the 10 minutes let them back in but if u see lightening during the 10 minutes then u have to start the time all over again but try and bribe them with something to get them out................GOODLUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-06-25 19:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by ♥~Jeff Hardy's babe~♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pffffffft.........they would have been toast. You just put on that mommy face and say......"Get out you toots or I'll tons of explaining to do to your parents at your funerals.......and pesonally I'm not up for that....... I look bad in black!"
2006-06-25 18:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the rule of thumb is - if you can see it - it can kill you - get out of the water silly
2006-06-25 17:00:21 · answer #8 · answered by trickster_travels 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get electrocuted
2006-06-25 16:57:00 · answer #9 · answered by livin_life1011 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋