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David Hansen wrote:
On 07 Aug 2006 15:46:21 GMT someone who may be
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How is anyone going to get killed (or even injured) by it?

That should be fairly obvious. If they are in contact with the water
when the electricity finally escapes from the cable then they might
be killed.

When the electricity 'escapes'?

How will a person touching any part of this offer a lower impedance to
earth than the water itself? Or, on the other hand, how will any
part that can be touched have a significant voltage on it?

Maybe because the water is insulated by a Butyl pond liner.

I doubt very much if the pond liner means that the water is insulated
from the surrounding earth. Either the ground around will be dry (and
thus non conductive and won't offer a 'path to earth' that I'm
standing on) or it will be wet and so will the edge of the pond so the
pond will be at earth potential.

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Chris Green