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Using a DC current at roughly 17- 19 volts.
If you were totally submerged in the water and have a hot stinger in your hand, would you not be only one side of the circuit? And would not the water be a better conductor than your body?
By comparison, standing knee deep in the water with a hot stinger in your hand you would be completing a circuit through your body which by design has to much resistance to push a dangerous amount of current through it.
The results would be shocking to say the least but not deadly. When you establish an Arc and then it all goes away for as long as you maintain the arc.
Been there! Done that many times! Not saying its not dangerous here, but sometimes the danger lies somewhere other than principle. Like driving an automobile at 70 MPH. “Speed Kills” but in truth its recklessness that makes the final stroke.