Here's a reason you don't want to be in the water during lightning!!
This is not lightning, demolition charges ignited by a high voltage fuse.
Brian McCuaig. NS30u
Whitby, Ontario
“Having a yacht is reason for being more cheerful than most."
I must say that it certainly does not look like any lightning that I have ever seen (on videos, truthfully - I’ve never seen a live hit). It TOTALLY looks like a piece of planned demolition.
Still, I would NOT want to be anywhere near a live hit … on land … or in the water … or in an airplane.
Ernie A. in Toronto
Ernie;
Warning - Off topic of sailboats.
Still, I would NOT want to be anywhere near a live hit … on land … or in the water … or in an airplane
Years (Decades) ago I did some work on black box data recovery; way back when they were still mainly tape loops. (the company I worked for did LOTS of work, I got dragged in once in a while). It’s actually very interesting reading - pilots are usually very open about survival and what went right, and wrong, planes improved, but I digress.
Just before going off overseas, I read a report (this is from memory about two decades ago) about an Airbus A310-ish that was flying high over Europe, got hit by lightning, door sensors destroyed. Engines went to idle, pilots tried to “rev 'em up” and were informed that they had to close all doors first. They idled their way into Frankfurt or so (in Germany, anyway)
Ok - flight on an Air Canada A340, Ottawa->Montreal, then ->Paris. On final into the Montreal airport, plane got hit by lightning, lights went dim, then immediately a pre-recorded stern voice comes on over the PA system “PUT ON OXYGEN MASKS NOW!!!” repeated and repeated. Masks did not drop and we all looked at each other wondering… The in-flight entertainment system was broken, reading lights would not come on, but I guess it was safe to fly because we took the same plane to Paris.
If the engines had gone to idle, as in that NTSB report I had just read, we might have landed short in one of the neighbourhoods in the flight path.
John A. Stewart, NS26 046 berthed at Kingston ON.
I agree that it does not look like lightning. There is no thunder or sound on the camera, no electrical interference, lightning would not go over rocks but into them or the nearby trees in its path to earth, no other sign of lightning such as the source of this. That said, do high voltage fuses incinerate the wires? Is that preferred for underwater? WRT electrical interference, a demolition charge has two wires with the opposing current directions cancelling any EMI. I have been in a boat all too close to lightning, strong smell of ozone immediately after followed by a sacrifice to Thor.
Alan, Toronto
Good afternoon,
This site and associated video describes in detail what caused the look of a lightning strike on the water.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lightning-striking-a-river/.
I just hope they had a nice fish fry after.
Have a wonderful day.
Butch
Butch Garren
Nonsuch 30, #196
Whiskers II,
Solomons, MD
Maybe they didn’t care about the tree stump and were trying to cook a LOT of fish to feed the town ??
You never know. We should ask the folks in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Huge Finnish community there.
Ernie A. in Toronto