User blog comment:SirSkrill/Ask Matthew the Skrill!/@comment-3230751-20130403021541

Uh...Sir Skrill, you might want to brush up on your physics research. Water and electricity do mix! Water is a powerful conducter (like metal), so electricity actually passes through it much easier than air. So a lightning strike that is travelling through air, travels through water with greater force. That is why it is dangerous to swim during thunderstorms.