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Prayers for the family.
It never ceases to amaze me......
If anyone ever needs a recomendation for a competent electrician or contractor, feel free to contact me and I will put you in touch with people that do things correctly and safely.
I don't know what exactly happened, but that dock could have been there 20 years. Constant wave action and weather, anything could have come loose. Anything could have happened to cause that freak incident. I was telling my wife that kids are more likely to die riding home in the family truckster from vacation than something like this. I understand the human instinct to find out WTF happened and fix it, but I don't know if this was just one of those things.
Either way it is just so sad for the family.
But you are right if the electrical was installed by some schmo that didn't know what he was doing that is bad, but also remember that these docks are supposed to at least be inspected when they are first built to insure they are safe.