Mystery Beach Blast
Mystery Beach Blast
(OP)
So the cat is outta the bag. The beach blast was a direct burial cable a few feet from the surf line.. Crazy. The poor lady is lucky she was protected by some feet of sand. It's funny too that the immediate response by authorities was to fill the hole in and re-open the beach.
What I'd like to know is why did nothing go dark? No one noticed a MV line failure? Interesting.
It's fortunate no one discovered a tripped breaker and re-closed it.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mystery-deepens-rhode-island-beach-blast/story?id=32413286
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
What I'd like to know is why did nothing go dark? No one noticed a MV line failure? Interesting.
It's fortunate no one discovered a tripped breaker and re-closed it.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mystery-deepens-rhode-island-beach-blast/story?id=32413286
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com






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Looks like you have got your own version, an Electric Beach...
And, why not? We've already got Electric Clouds - aka Thunder.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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I hope her lawyers are getting ready for attack mode..
I see kids digging much deeper than that everyday all up and down the coast...
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Direct buried cable under a foot of sand is an NESC violation. Sure it was deeper when installed, but NESC requires installations to be maintained to code.
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That's probably why it failed, the sand shifting put it in tension.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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thread248-161226: Electric lake?
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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So, the investigation has turned up Hydrogen gas. The decomposing cable bacon showed us seems to have generated H2 in the chemistry of copper, probably the sheath, saltwater, organisms, and sand. I'd guess creating a battery in there somewhere. They found very high hydrogen levels in various places on the beach. They trenched it all to dissipate the hydrogen (they're nuts) and filled it all back in and the beach is open.
Did they remove the cable? No.
Seems the poor lady victim was smoking earlier in the day, but of course doesn't remember anything from around the time of the incident, as is typical of violent head-rattling traumas.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/mystery-beach-blast-rhode-island-blamed-hydrogen-gas-32669452
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Is that you?
Are you back from Chicago?
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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I would never go there, I hate bending conduit.
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Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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They both sheepishly admitted that they were not "quite sure" why they did this.
But the beach guests were happy that someone did something to the problem. Same thing all over the World, I think.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
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So if you smell rotten eggs at the beach.. Don't light up that smoke