The fish are fine. I have heard scuba divers say that the most beautiful thing they've ever seen is a lightning strike that they were ten feet underneath.
The path of least resistance is not, in any way, through you.[1]
Now, there's enough electricity that if you're too close to the surface, your great relative resistance isn't going to save you from a shock. All that electricity has to go *somewhere* - but I'm not surprised to learn it dissipates in a hurry.
[1]: I don't think "submerged in water" could act as a Faraday cage, but I'm not sure. There's a reason I avoided EM and power courses after third year.
My understanding is that the lightning diffuses almost entirely across the surface. Apparently, it's a starburst sort of thing if you're looking up at it. I couldn't find any pics on Google, of course the probability that you're there in the first place is infinitessimal much less that you have a camera ready to go.
Of course, you'd be shitting a brick trying to get back in the boat and get that huge piece of metal off your back.
Some of the apparent width of those bolts is burn-in from the awesome amount of light in an otherwise fairly dark frame.. the camera would over-expose them a lot (You can see how fuzzy the main bolts are compared to the smaller forks).
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Date: 2009-03-23 09:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-03-23 10:24 pm (UTC)Oh, attack of Moose.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090320/K032004AU.html
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Date: 2009-03-24 02:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-03-24 03:17 am (UTC)*YOU* are not conductive.
The path of least resistance is not, in any way, through you.[1]
Now, there's enough electricity that if you're too close to the surface, your great relative resistance isn't going to save you from a shock. All that electricity has to go *somewhere* - but I'm not surprised to learn it dissipates in a hurry.
[1]: I don't think "submerged in water" could act as a Faraday cage, but I'm not sure. There's a reason I avoided EM and power courses after third year.
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Date: 2009-03-24 03:31 am (UTC)Of course, you'd be shitting a brick trying to get back in the boat and get that huge piece of metal off your back.
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Date: 2009-03-24 07:17 am (UTC)*feels even smaller*
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Date: 2009-03-24 11:20 am (UTC)Still. Not all of it.