Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Underground Electric Question

The conduit won't do much.. It's mainly for protection and makes it alot easier to run wire.. Plastic conduit is alot better to run around water because you can seal it, but will leak in time.. I talked to an electrician at work and explained this to him.. He said he's heard stories of people being electrocuted by shorted out wire that is ran underground to boat docks.. He says electricity running trough water will not blow a breaker, I asked him why not, he said he didn't know for sure.. He also said wire ran through conduit filled with water won't short or electrify the area around it unless their a break in the insulation where water can get in, he said if that happened under a lake it would electrify that certain area with very high amperage enough to kill a person and would fizzle out the farther away from the short. But he said most likely it would not blow a breaker.. He said all of this is in theory and what he thinks would happen.. So don't take this info to the bank but definately do your research. He said electric takes the path of least resistance and water would be easier than traveling down a ground wire. A breaker blows from a current detected on the ground if the short travels to water and not down a ground wire it wouldn't blow IN THEORY. just some thoughts from an electrician of 30 yrs.