Because the steel hull of a ship is a good conductor and men are often working in a state of sweat, when body resistance is reduced, the conditions aboard ship are more hazardous from the standpoint of electric shock than those normally encountered ashore .
Ngenxa yokuba isiqu senqanwa sentsimbi sesona sinikezeli sombane esilungileyo kwaye amadoda soloko esebenza ade abile, xa kunciphile ukuxhathisa komzimba, iimeko enqanaweni zidla ngokuba nobungozi kakhulu kwindawo ekunokuthi kudibane khona iintambo zombane kunaselunxwemeni.