On 5/5/98 14:14PM, John Somers wrote: >Neil Harrison wrote: > "if the lightning hits the water anywhere in the vicinity of >your boat, you're still fried. At least, that's what they told us in the >Wilderness Advanced First Aid class that I took.." > > Neil, this is very interesting, especially if the class instructors had >any real-life data. Did they say what they based this on? I would expect >the water to disperse the frying somewhat. They didn't qualify the statement, but I forgot to mention that they told us that the effect of lighting in water is usually mitigated outside of a 200 yard radius of a strike because of the dispersion of the charge in water, as I remember. This was a Wilderness Medical Associates course which was GREAT, so I'll take them at face value. The basic thing that I came away with was that lightning in a wilderness context is to be avoided at all cost! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Harrison-Houston, Texas email: nil_at_nol.net (_at_ _at_) web: www.nol.net/~nil/ ----------------------------ooO~(_)~Ooo---------------------------- 100% recycled electrons *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 05 1998 - 13:15:44 PDT
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