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Why doesn't anyone get electrocuted?

posted 13 years ago by geo1284060
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In many episodes, there would be situations where a compartment was flooding, and yet the lights (and the power) would be on with men in that compartment. In the opening of the episode "And Five Of Us Are Left", the Tetra was flooding badly. With water spraying everywhere, the crew was working by electrical panels. We often see how someone is killed in a bathtub if someone else drops a plugged-in hair dryer in the tub. Why is there not a massive short circuit that would kill everyone in that compartment? Do Navy ships have some kind of GFCI system to protect the crew, both on this show and in real life?

[–] winterview 13 years ago

One would hope the wiring would be sealed in conduit,

however,

I recall reading about the Squalus sinking, and wasn't part of the fatalities due to sea water reacting with the acid in the batteries making poison gas? Those batteries were electrical, and sea water contacting them was dangerous.

Hopefully this is a solved issue these days for a sub crews.

[–] kenburke0627 11 years ago

There was one episode in which someone did get electrocuted.

It was the bad guy played by Henry Jones in the second episode he showed up in.

A shocking way to go.

[–] mlaughlin22 11 years ago

The circutry room looks cool when your a kid , but looking at it
now I wonder how it passed inspection ? All the exposed wires .
Maybe Nelson used fuses instead of circut breakers to save money .

And that unshielded reactor anybody can pull the cores out .
That room should be shielded and 2 doors to get in and only Nelson , Crane and Sharkey with the keys .

Fix the error reports on this site

[–] winterview 11 years ago

It didn't matter Nelson cheaped out on the reactor shielding since he was firing nukes at stuff all the time, and the crew would have been contaminated from that!