When lightning strikes the ocean, why don't all the fish die?
By hunibani
@hunibani (720)
Philippines
February 10, 2012 4:37am CST
Lightning and thunder are very strong power that will kill you and burn even a big trees. What more for a small fish that living in the ocean? And as we know water is a good conductor of electricity. And those fish living in the sea. Pfff.
6 responses
@sunirmal70 (82)
• India
10 Feb 12
Sea is a huge water hub. In each and every minutes, lighting stokes are falling over the sea, but due to its huge quantity of water, the current of electricity has disbursed in seconds between the sea's waster ions and hence, it has no effects on fishes etc. as I learnt.
@yanzalong (18983)
• Indonesia
10 Feb 12
Because lightening doesn't go deep into the sea. Not only fish, other living things, even human beings diving under the sea do not get influenced by it.
@Kasiviswanathan2k (288)
• India
10 Feb 12
In the Under world of Ocean is always suspense. That is a hidden truth in the world. I don't how it happen. But sure there is am scientific truth is there.
@rastaman91 (679)
• Indonesia
10 Feb 12
I think because the ocean is too wide, so the spread is not too great power, the lightning which had thousands of watts, the spread by a vast sea water to just tens or hundreds of watts
@dorothy172 (984)
• Malaysia
10 Feb 12
when i saw your title, i really attracted and feel curious about this question. i am a science student but i never think about this question at all. it is really weird, why the fish doen not affected by the thunder? is that they have the ability to stand from thunder? this is really a good question, i think i have to take a look on the internet why this could happen. thanks
