What Happens If You Touch High Voltage?

[00:00:00]You don't just get shocked. [music] When high voltage hits, your body becomes a living heating element. In a fraction of a second, the current forces its way through your skin, searching for the fastest path to the ground. Your muscles don't just twitch, [music] they clamp.

[00:00:14]This is called a tetanic contraction.

[00:00:16]It's so violent it can snap your own bones. But while you're frozen in place, a much more silent and terrifying process is starting deep inside your tissue.

[00:00:25]It's called internal cooking, and you're about to see why it's almost impossible to stop.

[00:00:30]>> [music] >> Once the current is inside, your internal resistance turns that energy into thousands of degrees of heat. Blood vessels don't just burn, they vaporize.

[00:00:37][music] This creates internal steam pressure that has to go somewhere. Eventually, the current finds its way out. These [music] exit wounds are often explosive as the energy literally melts its way through.

[00:00:49]To survive, you have to break the circuit immediately, >> [music] >> because once the current stops, the cooking continues from the inside out.

[00:00:56]This is the science of the shock.

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