How Lightning Affects Electric Current in the Sea? 0 9

When lightning strikes water, electric current spreads from the point of impact in different directions, primarily along the surface, and its strength decreases with increasing distance.

It is believed that at a distance of up to 10 meters from the lightning strike, the current poses a lethal danger to a swimmer. The threat is especially high in freshwater, as it is less conductive than the electrolytes in the human body, and the current will primarily flow through it.

For fish, however, the more dangerous factor is not the electric current but the thunder: at a distance of 10 meters from the lightning strike, the sound level in the water reaches 240 decibels, which stuns fish like an explosion, and even hundreds of meters away, the sound remains dangerous.