Parents Warn About Electric Shock Drowning After 15-Year-Old Daughter Tragicallv Dies

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Parents Warn About Electric Shock Drowning After 15-Year-Old Daughter Tragicallv Dies.


https://m.theepochtimes.com/parents...ear-old-daughter-tragically-dies_2963112.html.


Richard

 

[pedro47]

That was a very tragic story.

 

[OldGuy]

Before I opened the article, I was already thinking boat dock. It's a big deal if you have a boat dock, and swim around it, which I have been all afternoon. There's been similar incidences at Lake of the Ozarks.

Wasn't there one at Orange Lake, or some Orlando resort, a few years back?

 

[Gypsy65]

Orange lake had it happen at the mini put golf by River Island

The little ponds have since been filled in

 

[PigsDad]

It didn't specify in the article, but were these circuits not on a GFI circuit breaker? Wouldn't that have prevented the tragedy? Sounds like some DIY electrical work could have been the cause. I guess an equipment malfunction could have been the cause, but how often does that happen? GFI breakers are pretty rock solid, I thought.

Kurt

 

[CanuckTravlr]

Thanks for posting this important warning, Richard. What a terrible set of circumstances. The danger of being in the water near docks or boats would never have occurred to me either. I would have thought the larger body of water would have dissipated the current except right by the source, not up to 10 feet away.

 

[mdurette]

Every time I play mini golf I’m reminded of a story of a child that went to retrieve his ball from one of the water obstacles and died due to shock. Tragic

 

[cowboy]

I wonder why the father didn't get shocked when he put the ladder into the water?

 

[learnalot]

It didn't specify in the article, but were these circuits not on a GFI circuit breaker? Wouldn't that have prevented the tragedy? Sounds like some DIY electrical work could have been the cause. I guess an equipment malfunction could have been the cause, but how often does that happen? GFI breakers are pretty rock solid, I thought.

Kurt

Such a tragic story. DH is an electrician so I just read it to him. His short answer (without having full details) is that a correctly-installed GFCI on the circuit most likely would have prevented this because, essentially, the GFCI would have cut the power to the circuit immediately and automatically, something his wife had to do manually to remedy the problem.

He also said, though, that GFCIs don't do any good if they are bypssed and that sometimes people bypass their GFCI protected circuits without thinking about it by running extension cords from circuits not protected by a GFCI. National Electrical Code requires outdoor circuits to be GFCI but since they may not get used that often, people will sometimes go to plug something in and find that the outlet doesn't seem to be working - because it is tripped (for a reason). But thinking it is a "dead" outlet, people may run an extension cord out the window to do what they were going to do. Or they do so because they don't have any outdoor outlets. Many indoor circuits are not GFCI - bathrooms, kitchens, and utility rooms are required to be; living rooms, bedrooms, and such are not.

So sad.

 

[Talent312]

I have a GFCI circuit that powers outdoor outlets and bathrooms.
The breaker seems to flip whenever it just looks like rain.
It may be a weak breaker, but I figure, "better safe than sorry."

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Richard