ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Electrical Theory and Applications Is this true?

When I was in the Navy, they used to tell us that the body's resistance could, under certain circumstances, be as low as 300 ohms. If you apply Ohm's Law, you will find that 30 volts can push .1 amp through your body, and put you in a pine box. It's not likely to happen, but those Navy instructor's got their info from somewhere. Do you think that it happened on some submarine? The old ones were DC. Thought I would throw in my 2 cents.

I=E/R,
Doc

That picture of Nikola Tesla sitting
in a chair as sparks fly about him
was a multiple exposure. The situation
depicted therein was simply lethal to
an unprotected human. The biography
wherein I saw that picture noted that it
was a multiple exposure and mentioned
some contraversy at the time from the
revelation of that fact.

Under extreme conditions it appears it can be even less.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/deathrow/drorder.html

{Scroll down to the table of measurements about a third of the way down the document. The lowest recorded value is 133 ohms.}

hmmmm, inmate Remeta being the most 'resistant'....can't blame him for trying.....