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As a electrician I found a light fixture in a shower where the water ran down the light bulb. The home owner had to be crazy.
I used to have a water heater shower head. 220 volts with the water flowing over the heating element within the shower head. If you got too close to it with your head, you would get a rather large tingle.
The building code has required GFIs in bathrooms since the early 70.
I actually helped design one of the first GFI integrated circuit chips while working as a design engineer at Motorola in the early 70s. I'll bet GFIs have saved many lives since then.
Several years later, while using an electric saw plugged into a long extension cord in my backyard, my stupid dog Phineas chewed on the cord while I was using the saw. He tripped the GFI
If you buy an old house without GFIs, make sure you install them anywhere close to water: Kitchens, Baths, and all exterior sockets.
They could have been electrocuted, shocked, paralyzed, and/or subsequently drowned. It happens. There's a also a big difference between "water-resistant" and waterproof. This instance reminds me of the Texas pastor who as electrocuted by microphone while in the baptism tank.
In the story you cite, there was a fault in the system that caused the electrocution. The microphone never entered the water. Note that the woman with him in the baptismal was not injured.
In your original post, was the microphone wired or wireless?
Police Release Last Text Message 14-Year-Old Sent Before She Was Electrocuted in Bathtub.
Police have released the last text message that 14-year-old Madison Coe sent before she was electrocuted while texting in the bathtub at her father’s New Mexico home.
Coe, of New Mexico, reportedly texted an image of her phone charger plugged into an extension cord to a friend along with the message, “When you use [an] extension cord so you can plug your phone in while you’re in the bath.”
I used to have a water heater shower head. 220 volts with the water flowing over the heating element within the shower head. If you got too close to it with your head, you would get a rather large tingle.
Huh.
Did it have an extension hose so that you could take it down and use it on other parts of the body?
Yah. Condolences to the family & friends. Absolutely, anyone who lugs around a cell phone & concentrates on it to the exclusion of recognizing risky behavior - is in trouble. She could have tested the CFI, I suppose, before she ever got in the tub - if she knew how & why it was important to test it.
Without that knowledge, she may not have known that any kind of extension cord in a bathroom - especially if the floor or towel is wet - is a very bad idea. If the cord was frayed, so much the worse. Some mistakes you simply can't recover from.
Yeah, and don't take electrical stuff into the bathtub.
my favorite bath toys were my radio and my toaster .
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A life cut short
