Theoretical Thoughts:
For several years now the public has been educated concerning the dangers of using or dropping electrical devices in a bathtub or sink (shock or electrocution). Several products used in bathrooms are so marked.
In a modern bathroom a totally fiberglass and plastic constructed hydromassage bathtub is installed along with accompanying plastic water line system and drain line system. There is absolutely no conductive metal of any kind ever in contact with the tub water. The tub has GFCI protection as required in 680.71.
A two-wire hair dryer or radio (no equipment grounding conductor) plugged into a GFCI protected receptacle outlet is dropped into the jetted tub described above. The primary question here is would a person sitting in the tub receive a shock or be electrocuted? If so, how? Would the GFCI device deactivate the power source and if so how is the alternative current path traced back to the source by-passing the GFCI device?
For several years now the public has been educated concerning the dangers of using or dropping electrical devices in a bathtub or sink (shock or electrocution). Several products used in bathrooms are so marked.
In a modern bathroom a totally fiberglass and plastic constructed hydromassage bathtub is installed along with accompanying plastic water line system and drain line system. There is absolutely no conductive metal of any kind ever in contact with the tub water. The tub has GFCI protection as required in 680.71.
A two-wire hair dryer or radio (no equipment grounding conductor) plugged into a GFCI protected receptacle outlet is dropped into the jetted tub described above. The primary question here is would a person sitting in the tub receive a shock or be electrocuted? If so, how? Would the GFCI device deactivate the power source and if so how is the alternative current path traced back to the source by-passing the GFCI device?