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Re: Lightning at sea
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2004 Oct 15, 10:45 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2004 Oct 15, 10:45 +1000
Apart from anything else, the GPS may go down. And the handheld GPS models seem to chew through a lot of little batteries in no time at all. Quoting Lisa Fiene: > In this situation, as our boat is constructed of steel, if we did > receive a lightning strike on the mast, what would have happened? > >