Obviously if we put live electricity in the sea, the whole ocean wouldn’t then become dangerous with it. At what point does the electricity stop? What stops it?
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Not an answer but an anecdote…
When I was young, I had a fish tank heater, basically a heating element inside a glass tube, but the glass tube had broken. I plugged it into the house with a long extension cord and would go to the canal abutting my house and submerge the heating element, then turn it on. (It was an easy way to catch fish.)
One day a friend was with me and he wondered how far the electricity went. So he got in the water about 10 feet away and started walking toward me. He started feeling it as he got closer.
Another anecdote…
I was sailing a dinghy and a storm came through. I was knee deep in the water trying to get the boat ready to be put back on the trailer when I saw lightning strike the water, maybe half-mile away. I felt the electricity up my thighs. After the third strike, I decided the boat wasn’t worth it and got out of the water. (I came back after the storm and finished it then.)
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