will the people in the pool get electrified..?
2007-07-21 05:27:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
ummm good question. If they get electrocuted, wouldn't there be more deaths that way? I've never heard of anyone dying coz they were swimming in a pool that got hit by lightening.... Maybe the lightening disperses coz there's so much water around or something and doesn't really hit a person with the same intensity as it would had the person been hit directly.... Ok I'm gonna sound dumber the more I talk, so I'm gonna shut up now.
2007-07-21 05:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's every chance the people in the pool would be electrocuted. The greater the area of water and the more salts are disolved in it (including chlorine which is often used to clean the water), the less chance there is of someone being electrocuted, this is because the lightning is more readily dissipated and over a large area.
The further you are from the point where the lightning strtikes the weaker the current is but a swimming pools is a pretty small area of contained water and if struck by lightning a lethal current would extend throughout the whole pool. In a larger body of water such as the sea you would be unaffected provided you were far enough away from the ligthning strike.
The current passing through the water can be calculated using the formula C =1 / x² where C is the current and x is the distance away from the lightning strike.
It's not something I'd want to try for myself and the advice is not to go swimming when lightning is a possibility.
2007-07-21 08:31:20 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it were a huge Olympic size swimming pool, and they were on the opposite side of the strike, they might stand a chance because the volume of water would dissipate the energy of the lightening. However in a small pool, there would be enough energy to zap them dead.
I've always wondered about this same scenario, except in the ocean. How close do you have to be to a lightening strike in the ocean to feel the current? 5 meters, 50 meters....I wonder?
2007-07-21 05:38:03 · answer #3 · answered by fonzarelli_1999 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the water will get warm cause of the heat being transferred but this chance is verry unlikely and unless its a metal pool an some1 is holding on to metal nothing will happen
2007-07-21 06:33:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lightening would have to strike the individual swimmers to injure, kill them. The water would act as a ground, creating a current through the struck swimmer.
2007-07-21 05:38:15 · answer #5 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. they will die. you wonder why people get out of the pool when theres lightning?
my mom saw a guy she knew get hit by lightning when he was skiing out on a lake too, when she was in college.
so i wouldnt want to be in water w/lightning
2007-07-21 05:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know a man who was scuba diving in a lake when lightening hit. He said the whole lake lit up very brightly. He was badly dazed, and barely made it out. He was groggy for some time, and considered himself lucky to be alive.
2016-05-19 03:26:29 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chance is very less, lighting never strikes water bodies. If it happened there would be no life in the Sea.
2007-07-21 05:38:43 · answer #8 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's a 95% chance they will die. So don't try it. Unless you want to die.
2007-07-21 05:35:57 · answer #9 · answered by Hales 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-07-21 05:32:48 · answer #10 · answered by hotvw1914cc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋