If you would throw an electrical device into the ocean , how big would the area where you can get electrocuted be?

Question

If you would throw an electrical device into the ocean , how big would the area where you can get electrocuted be?

In: Physics

Answer 1

If you threw an electrical device (either 110v or 220v) into the ocean it would simply short out. The area that one could be electrocuted would be minuscule as the current would travel straight down to the nearest part of ocean floor. Unless your at the exact spot where you dropped something like a toaster in you’d feel nothing.

Also if you tried just putting a cable in to the ocean hooked up a generator the same thing would happen. The generator would just short out stopping any current from transferring to the ocean water.