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Originally Posted by mas1992bc
I'm not an electrician, so I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I have a related question. What about swimming near a circulator (like the ones used to circulate water around your dock in the winter)? Those are plugged into shore power, with the cord running directly into the water. Obviously, nobody is swimming in the winter, but would it be unsafe to swim in the water with one of those plugged in (if, for some reason, you still had it plugged into power in the spring)?
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I think those come out long before exposed skin goes in.
But you are correct if they were not properly ground faulted then there may be a problem.
My .02, anyone who knowingly has electricity out to their dock without proper ground fault weather it is legal because it's been there since before time or not is asking for trouble. Just curious if something did happen and a loved one or family member got hurt or worse it would still have been legal but that person would still have gotten hurt because of something you could have prevented.
2 years ago I had a truck catch on fire because the block heater wasn't plugged into a ground fault outlet. Well the garage had none in it to begin with.
The cord had broken from use and shorted on the bumper catching the grill on fire while sitting right in front of my garage. I've since changed over to arch protection outlets, costly but worth it since I'm sometimes caught working out in the rain or have things plugged in during the winter.