• Question: When lightning strikes the ocean why don't all the fish die?

    Asked by weheartsciencexo to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      I think its because the water is such a better conductor of electricity than the fish, that it doesn’t enter the fishes body. Plus the ocean is technically grounded so the electricity has somewhere to go.

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