Most people think that water is a conductor and that that is why it causes people to die from electrical shock when exposed to it. This is untrue.
My answer is two fold. First of all pure water is an insulator. When it is mixed with impurities those impurities are actually the conductors, not the water. Second electricity always takes the path of least resistance (It will travel through the material that is most conductive).
If your in a pool of water and the lightning strikes most of the charge won't travel through the water, because it is an insulater. It will travel through you the conductor. You are the path of least resistance (especially if your touching the bottom of the pool or the side of it). That is why people are killed in a pool from lightning strikes. Most of the people that survive such strikes were probably floating in the water, not touching anything else but the water (thus not completing a circuit).
I would suggest that most fish in the ocean do not get killed for this reason. Salt water is a very good conductor and as such the salt water pulls the path of the electricity from the lightning bolt around the fish, not through it. I would add this as another reason among the others above.
When someone is in a bath tub and an electrical item is drop in and that someone is electicuted, this is because the the path of least resistance is throught the person touching the bottom and sides of the tub. The water is mostly insulated from the current so it travels almost entirely through the human body.
because the electricity is dissipated.
Some fish can be electrocuted by lightning. It depends how close they are to the lightning strike. Natural waters usually have enough ions in it that the electric charge from lightning will be dispersed very quickly and so will not carry enough charge to electrocute fish if they are very far from the lightning strike.
B/c the effect of a strike is very local. Only fish that are really close will be affected, and those are not many enough to matter.
Yes
All save for sharks, rays and chimaeras. All other fish are bony fish (Osteichtyes).
No. If all the fish died, there would be no fish. Some fish unlucky enough to be too close, however, may die.
Nothing, it's God's will to kill all with bolts of giant lightning; besides tons of rubber
All fish need oxygen....
Lightning can absolutely kill you. Say you are standing against a tree that gets struck, you have a chance of not making it.
Take the Betta out as soon as possible.I have a Betta in my tank with other fish,but he doesnt fight with my fish at all.
no not all of them.No baby fish can eat other fish.Some mabye sporpinian fish can kil goldfish and srips they give it to there babys to eat.Or them selfs. Shrips can not kill any fish unless plankton wich is not really a kinda fish.Sharks can kill every fish but not salts of killer fish. sawed fish can kill and eat fish with there long sawrds on there noses.
Before a lightning strike, a charge builds up along the water's surface. When lightning strikes, most of electrical charge occurs near the water's surface. Most fish swim below the surface and are unaffected.
Lightning is present in all thunderstorms, even if you canâ??t see it. It is a product of the thunderstorm itself, and is very dangerous.
They will all die dope
Ash doesnt really want to kill you. He just wants to catch all the pokemon.
Almost nothing is done to help prevent lightning strikes. This is because if lightning does hit, then all it will do is scorch the struck part of the ship of kill electronic navigation. Lightning doenst strike ships much to begin with, however.