IVP wrote:

>> There is this situation that happens every now and then in the movies
>> where somebody dies in a swimming pool because somebody else
>> throws a device that is connected to mains into the pool. Is this=20
>> possible?
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> Interesting and very watchable results for that when Mythbusters tried it
> with a bath and poor old Buster
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> I think they did a fairly good job on this one. What amazed me in that
> segment was a hairdryer (not the GFCI one) that kept going underwater !
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2004_season)#Appliances_in_the_=
Bath
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> Video
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> http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-appliances-in-the-bath-minimy=
th.html

Thanks for the quick reply! :)

I can imagine the bathtub, but I still have problems imagining this in a
swimming pool.

Gerhard
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