Electrocuted on Sunday (Help)

[Arl798]

On Sunday afternoon in Isla Mujeres Mexico I was fishing the 9th annual Isla Open Fishing tourny on my 1999 Sea ray 400 Sedan when I was electrocuted. Sea's were 12-15 feet and we took a pretty good pounding. Waves were crashing over the back of the boat into the locker where my shore power outlets are and well as over top of the hatch to access the engine room. Generator is right underneath there and was a bit wet.

What happened was as I was holding on for dear life to the handle of the sliding door I got Zapped with a pretty good voltage. I managed to turn everything off and make it back with no issues. Upon investigation I found it was only creating a voltage to the sliding door if my Starboard side breaker is on. So with that off I have no problems. I also found a bit of water in an outlet in the starboard side bathroom. As a side note it also rained buckets for 3 days straight.

Any thoughts and or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[docofthebay]

If you are writing this 3 days later, then everything is probably ok. Elecrocutions give a two phase injury pattern, first is immediate external burns which should be obvious and or immediate heart arrythmias which would not allow you to post this thread as you would be dead. Second is an injury pattern where the voltage ran thru you. This would show up in weird nervous sensations from nerve injury or muscular weakness from damaged muscle. A serious muscle injury would also exhibit dark urine as the damaged muscle proteins are filtered out by the kidneys. If you have this you need to get checked out as too much of the proteins will clog your kidneys just like a fuel filter can get clogged and cause kidney failure. If you are feeling ok, with no or little weakness and clear urine and normal sensory nerve function, you are probably ok.
Now if your question was really aimed at what is wrong with the boat, others will have to chime in.

 

[Arl798]

But thank you for your concern

 

[rondds]

I have a suggestion...don't go out in that kind of weather. That is some serious "Deadliest Catch" type conditions, and it almost turned out that way. Glad you're OK!

 

[doozie]

Could just be static electric, Had this happen quite a bit when out in salty rough seas , everthing gets coated you touch it and you swear it was an electric shock, Had the same issues bringing a 48 back from FLA, Me being the electrician checked everything, could only get it to happen with the salt combination. Bob