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[Mark van der Eynden]

Terry Collins <terryc@woa.com.au> wrote in message news:<3F4B62C9.76CE8D84@woa.com.au>...

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Read a while ago that wet skin, salt water can cause some people to be
electrocuted using less than ten volts.
A navy person was electrocuted when using a multimeter while he was
impregnated with salt water.

Right, so explain how they can do underwater welding (at sea). Used to
be stick, now mig. They claim the effective work life of an underwater
welder is about 5 years. There after they are advised to generally give
it up because currents through the body have affected the heart. But,
they don't die the first time.

Gee, and all that time I thought the reason they only had an effective
working life of 5 years was related to the repeated
compression/decompression cycles their bodies have to go through.

Mark
(Also thinking these divers work mainly on deep sea oil rigs)

 

[Terry Collins]

Mark van der Eynden wrote:

Gee, and all that time I thought the reason they only had an effective
working life of 5 years was related to the repeated
compression/decompression cycles their bodies have to go through.

You could be right on that. My information came from a welding teacher,
who whilst experienced as a welder/boiler maker, wasn't a diver.



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In article <nq9gkv0r6di3ocd4nsg8b6ujgk9kbdhuks@4ax.com>,
kreed@bigpond.net.au says...
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:45:07 +1000, Jason
jallen@pobox.DELETE.THIS.TO.SEND.EMAIL.com> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:26 pm, Rod Speed wrote:

A navy person was electrocuted when using a
multimeter while he was impregnated with salt water.

Dont believe it.

Cant find the article at the moment.

Wota surprise.

It's true. Was using a 9V multimeter (Simpson 260) and, in his
excitement,
the guy pierced his thumbs with the tip of the probes. Skin has good
resistance, but soft tissue and muscle doesn't and once it reached the
blood (which is salty and thus conductive) - 80mA across the heart
resulted
in one dead sailor.


Cheers,
Jason



Im sorry but I find this very very hard to believe

I cant see that much current flowing in such a setup either

Some guy gave me some tosh about a guy killing himself by putting a 216
battery across his tongue, like you do

I don't believe it