For once I'm lost for words...

[McDuck]

perhaps they are creative geniuses who know how to keep their drinks cold....

With a grill?

[deanohit]

I mean, what can you say...?

Now thats smart!

[Usarka]

it's a repost, but it's appropriate:

[The Stranger:Me]

So what would happen if the plug flooded?
Assuming it has a functioning RCD somewhere in the chain it would simply trip in milliseconds - no problem there.

If not, doesn't electricity take the path of least resistance to earth?
This would be through the very large body of water, or if the pool (including pump and plumbing) is in fact an insulator no current would pass to earth and there would be no problem would there - until you tried to step out, in which case you would get a very big wake up call.
It is only the current passing through that causes a problem isn't it?

The light in our concrete pool is a standard 150mm Edison screw flood light. It has been smashed before and turned on with people in the pool - no problem, the water acts as a big earth sink.

[McDuck]

So what would happen if the plug flooded?
Assuming it has a functioning RCD somewhere in the chain it would simply trip in milliseconds - no problem there.

If not, doesn't electricity take the path of least resistance to earth?
This would be through the very large body of water, or if the pool (including pump and plumbing) is in fact an insulator no current would pass to earth and there would be no problem would there - until you tried to step out, in which case you would get a very big wake up call.
It is only the current passing through that causes a problem isn't it?

The light in our concrete pool is a standard 150mm Edison screw flood light. It has been smashed before and turned on with people in the pool - no problem, the water acts as a big earth sink.

The electricity gos everywhere but given there would be less shock further away from the bord.

If any of those guys had even slightly bad harts then they would be dead e an RCD could do anything. (and looking at them)

[flyingcrocodile46]

The light in our concrete pool is a standard 150mm Edison screw flood light. It has been smashed before and turned on with people in the pool - no problem, the water acts as a big earth sink.

I know someone who lost both his parents to a leaking pool light about 30sum years ago... the father when he dived in, the mother when she jumped in to save him from drowning (or so she thought).

I guess nobody told them that they wouldn't get electrocuted