Man dead after electrocution at Smith Mountain Lake dock, 2 injured trying to save him
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- One person is dead after a situation early Thursday morning involving electrocution at a dock at Smith Mountain Lake.
ABC13 first heard reports of an electrocution off of Lee Drive in Bedford County just before 4 a.m. According to the Bedford County Sheriff's Office, fire, rescue and law enforcement units were dispatched in the early morning hours to the location for a possible drowning.
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Ok, I'll do it for you guys. Boat docks have receptacle outlets out on the dock for boats to get power when they are docked. Often 30 or 20 amps. Most docks in the US are old and not fully maintained. The electrical wires out to the receptacles on the dock are often just stapled under the dock. Over the years they are coming undone and sagging into the water. The insulation gets worn by any number of factors from weather to sea life. As the current leaks out it creates a gradiant. The closer to the wire, the stronger the current. A shock will contract muscles making a person unable to swim. This should be part of our infrastructure, rather than the skewed priorities of our governments wasteful spending.
This private dock is not a part of "our" infrastructure. Get real!
This accident occurred on private property. It is not the government’s responsibility to maintain private property.
Thank you for explaining the electrical/dock component of this incident.
As a non-boater, I had no idea why there would even be a possibility of electrocution at a dock.
What in the holy hell is "Stray voltage" ?
The conductors from the receptacles out on the dock are falling in the water from lack of maintenance causing current to leak out into the water. It is a common problem in the US as most ducks are old and not maintained.
Voltage that isn't confined to its normal pathway, ie, wires.
@@ericstandefer9138 Wouldn't that cause a short and shut off the breaker or blow the circuit? Are we talking about illegally wired systems here?
"stray voltage" another meaningless fake news made up term..
Same thing goes for their other fake terms....
Stray bullet
Undocumented person
Global warming
Climate change
El Nino
El Nina
Heat index
No such thing as stray voltage. All circuits around pools and lakes should have GFI circuits with low trip points.
The voltage caused from faulty wiring is stray voltage. If it was not inspected or old wiring it may not have any of that stuff. Stray voltage from faulty infrastructure is an issue everywhere. Not just in waterways.
@@chazman4461yep, it came off that dock. We had a kid who died the same way and it was due to the marina not maintaining the electrical outlets
@@chazman4461 That's not stray voltage, which is supposed to come off intact transmission wires but doesn't really happen. That's just faulty wiring.
What the hell, do they hire 12 year olds to report the news now?
Book report for summer school.
Illegals. We got 4 million new illegals here in the last 4 years.
Yes. These people are professional liars for our fake government, not journalists.
Stray voltage? Lmaooo. Say what really happen so folks don’t make the same mistake
I looked it up (took me a few seconds) which one would think news REPORTERS could have done (besides asking the authorities on scene what MAY have caused this random and deadly current to be in the water) and it listed these: 'outdated wiring, damaged equipment, electrical faults, ground faults, and boats connected to shore power'. It would have made the article way more informative AND as you said--could possibly save others!
@@culcune can you imagine when the TikTok generation gets to report the news. It’s gonna be idiocracy for sure.
@@AntilleanConfederation they already are reporting as this clip shows!
What was cause for electrical malfunction that caused shock. Might want to fix that
Whoever owns the dock should be held accountable! 😎
At Clark Lake Michigan, when I was in 8th grade, a boy in our class was swimming in the lake with two friends. When they came back to the dock, the first one to touch the dock was electrocuted and stuck there. The second coming in, thought he was joking around and grabbed his ankle, so victim number 2. When Jimmy, our classmate saw them, he figured it out and went for rescuers. Two of the three died that day. It is something you never forget, this was in the mid 70's. The cause was electric conduit running alongside the dock for a spotlight, got a bare spot worn in it, probably from boats pulling alongside to load and unload.
You think that the parks department or the marinas would do a little better maintaining after these tragedies. Unnecessary and avoidable!
@Kaybaby6668 lazy and cheep
@@deborahwhit118 agreed 🥺
This happened a few months back at another dock. This happens more often then you think. A guy in a jacuzzi died like this. If a live wire is exposed to water it will electrocute you. Same thing with pool lights. I would never have lights installed in my pool. I would rather get water proof lights of some kind to hook on the side of a pool.
100%.
Years ago when we moved to Florida, our house was just being completed & so we briefly stayed at a motel.
The light in the motel pool was not working.
It had been taken apart, but there were wires where it had been.
My father forbade us from swimming in the pool because somebody had been "shocked."
He talked to us about electrocution & while we didn't fully understand what it all meant, I never forgot.
🙋♀️ shocked by a faulty pool light as a child. Still scared of lights in water 😢
Lousy reporting. Need info on HOW it happened, i.e. what caused a deadly amount of electricity to somehow just be floating around in the water because that's unusual. Don't u think that's slightly important?
It was an electric boat and he had to choose between the shark and electrocution....
Perhaps at the time of the broadcast they had no additional information?
It would have been nice of the news to report what was a potential cause considering what you said should have been answered--why is there a seemingly random current of electricity in the water lack of lightning? I mean, information as to what could be a possible cause might help save people.
@@drowe2 The victim was an 18 year kid who just graduated from Steamboat Springs High School in Colorado. RIP buddy. You never know when your time will come.
It might be all they know at this time.
I've heard of this happening before near docks wired for electricity. Rare, but it does happen. Probably the home owner running his own power to the dock on the cheap rather than hiring a professional electrician.
I grew up and still live near one of the largest lakes in Texas and this happens more often than you know. Usually the person lives, but in this case he died. Sometimes it's because the house was built before GFI interrupters were invented and the owners just never got around to updating their electrical. Other times it's because the homeowner did the wiring himself, but didn't have sufficient knowledge about it. DIYers should leave the electrical up to qualified electricians!
I am theorizing based on past articles about the subject (including people killed from electrocution); private docks will sometimes kill people when the wiring leading to the dock somehow touches the water. 'Outdated wiring, Damaged equipment, Electrical faults, Ground faults, and Boats connected to shore power' are some of the causes listed according to an old article I read about a teenager killed in Mississippi or Arkansas at a private dock. I wish this news report could have gotten into the subject as the article was lacking in detail as to how random electrical current is coursing through the water with lightning obviously not being the source.
Tough one. Condolences to the family.
Manslaughter
It is more common then you might believe. Boats and or docks can put out a large amount of electricity into the water especially when they are hooked up to a dock with a faulty electrical outlet. Docks should be checked every day by a dockmaster to see if marina electrical outlets are incorrectly wired to boats putting electricity into the water, or an unknown boat ties up to a dock. 35 years of boating, you learn a lot. This is one event that happens each year. Never swim or get into the water at or near a Marina, ever. Very sad.
Stray voltage? From where?
That’s rough, thanks for reporting.
That happen in Traverse City Mi. About 12 years ago, I think people died from the same situation! So so sad! Sorry for your loss
I googled stray voltage and its a true phenomenon. Weird but true.
STRAY voltage????
No reason for power source on a dock. Been on plenty of docks even families no power source.
If you have a boat lift or charge port for the boat you have electric at your dock. Including lights. The issue is not having the electric at the dock. It is how it was done. This happens at marinas every year.
@@chazman4461The officer reported “Boat Lift Dock at this residence” Make me believe this was a residential fault and not actually a public dock error?
There's always a few fatalities every boating season. Many docks -- even at 'upscale' marinas have stray voltage problems and they put "No Swimming" signs all over them. Some of the wiring is installed by do-it-yourself 'electricians,' and there are a lot of boats where the owner 'saved money' by wiring in new stuff all by himself. This was at a lake, so it was probably fresh water, which doesn't conduct nearly as well as it would in salt water marinas. I got a jolt like that once under a friend's boat, trying to slide a cutlass bearing back in place on a propeller shaft strut. Everything was fine and an accident waiting to happen until I touched the stainless steel strut with one hand and the propeller shaft with the other. I became the "fuse" in that circuit, and the voltage was passing through one arm and out the other -- rather close to the heart. The good news is that I didn't stick to the metal parts and fry. I popped back up and found that my friend hadn't turned off the "shore power" from the dock! It was something I should have checked and double-checked myself. Once the power was off, I went back down and finished the job. But I'm not gonna' do anything like that again unless I rig up some kind of voltage detector that I can check for stray voltage before getting in the water. To give you an idea of the possible voltage, "shore power" hookups can be 125 volts (A.C.) at 30 or even 50 Amps. or, it can be 220 volts at 50 Amps. Loose wiring, mixed up wiring, damaged wiring, etc. can be the source of "stray voltage" as the term is used by most marina personnel and boat people.
I know exactly the same about this now as I did from the title of this video
Dock inspections by local municipalities are never done. They should be as common as the structural inspections of Fl condos
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I'm confused if the electrical shock came from a mile and a half down the lake then they should be thousands of dead fish in the water also I'm a little confused on this story it seems to be a lot of missing information
Read the comments, will not waste my time watching this clip.
Prayers for All
Did they switch shoes? Reporter in white dress has on red shoes, the one in red dress has on white shoes.
Dandruff on the red ones shoes. No panties I guess.
Will the private dock owners be held liable?
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This man lives in my town in Colorado rip
New fear unlocked...
He was trying to get away from the shark
Rogue voltage? Confused and dazed voltage? Went to the shop for some bread 13 years ago never returned voltage?
Real life Ozark episode. Oof.
~ Who's that News Girl... Holly Molly Batman...
Probably no Ground Fault circuit interrupters and someone's extension cord laying in the water.
What is stray voltage?
Given what limited useful information was in the story and what the skies looked like in the background behind the reporter, knowing this is a stretch, but I wonder if lightning struck the lake somewhere unseen by the witnesses. Just putting out there. Seen and heard of a lot of people, sometimes their pets, electrocuted by a lightning strike no where near them. Stray electricity? Like electricity with no source wandering around in the water, like a fish? OK
My sincere condolences to the family and friends. Such a tragedy.
Poorly maintained boat dock wiring is the issue
What the hell does STRAY voltage mean? Was it just trying find some place live?
Private boat dock??? No ground fault interrupters? How freaking hard is it to put protective interrupters in, especially around WATER?
I can see a lawsuit in the works.
My Father and Brother..
I B E W ..electricians....
Code Zoning is Law..
Sad ...
Accident I’m sure. But something is obviously responsible for it.
Final destination
Ouch
Could stray voltage help the illegals avoid the southern border?
is stray voltage lightning?
What the gel causes the electric
I think it's electrical boat lifts at the dock.
@@barbarajohnson8968 thanks we were wondering 🤔
she needs a different carrer. sorry reporter
Are you serious? How is this reporting? What is the source of electric? Maybe your reporter needs to take her shoes off and wade into the water.
Western journalism: Talk a lot, say nothing.
English language: Talk a lot, say nothing.
The world: We've known a long time. ✅
Isnt the second incident
The water there is evil. Hypervitaminosis.
Imagine what EV hookups at the boat dock would do? Especially with America's third world infrastructure
RIP..BE CAREFUL OF THE GHOST IN THE LAKES.
Annoying Rachel voice
News reports nowadays are awful. IDK what's going on 😂
Yeah, that's a bummer killed twice - doulbe dead BUT
Who is the Blonde on-set anchor? Ooof, she the real shocker here. I'm all AMP'd up for ya, honey, baby.
Gfci!!!!!!)
I'm a retired-contractor...this seems extreamelly-FISHHY!!!!!.....hillarious..
What do you think it could really be?
This is what will happen if the Democrats get their "All Electric" boats.
Durrrrrr
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