12 children injured in Cultus Lake B.C. water park electrical incident

Someone is about to get a wicked fine for not making sure that the railing and walking surface was not bonded.

There’s a queuing area at the bottom of that ride with railing and when they made contact with that, that’s where the incident occurred for a brief time

There is a whole chapter of the Canadian Electrical Code dedicated to pools, tubs, and spas. And I would put my money on 68-058 1)

The metal parts of the pool and of other non-electrical equipment associated with the pool, such as piping, pool reinforcing steel, ladders, diving board supports, and conductive infrastructure within 1.5 m of the pool, shall be bonded together and to non-current-carrying metal parts of electrical equipment such as decorative-type pool luminaires and lighting equipment not located in a forming shell, forming shells, metal screens of shields for underwater speakers, conduit, junction boxes, and the like by a copper bonding conductor.

While everything may have been bonded at the time of construction, water corrodes metal, particularly when there is current flowing though it due to moisture.

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I wonder what went wrong, hopefully all of the kids make a full recovery

Don’t wizz on the electric fence.