For those who have sailboats on a lake and swim in the lake from their dock or from their boat (or even clean the bottom) this is a must read and sad article.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healtht ... spartandhp
The benefit of salt water is apparently the salinity factor which is closer to human salinity than fresh water is to human salinity and dissipates stray current away from you in salt water. This article explains it:
http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/magazin ... lained.asp
Electric Shock Drowning in a Lake from Stray Current
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Electric Shock Drowning in a Lake from Stray Current
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Roberto
a/k/a Sea Hunt "The Tadpole Sailor"
CDSOA #1097
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, as quoted in Naval History and Heritage Command, http://www.history.navy.mil