When lightning hits the water why don’t all the creatures in the sea die?

Question: When lightning hits the water why don't all the creatures in the sea die?
- Keywords:
  animal,
  death,
  life,
  lightning,
  sea,
  weather
Asked by wizzyg12 to Claire, Kate, Matt, Rob, Sam on 18 Jun 2013.
- Matthew Pankhurst answered on 18 Jun 2013:
  
  If they are close enough they would! The answer is because while there is heaps of deadly energy in a lightning bolt, it gets scattered through the water, so the energy spreads out and isn’t so deadly anymore.
- Robert Woolfson answered on 18 Jun 2013:
  
  Water conducts electricity so anything close to the strike dies. However, while lightning contains an insane amount of electrical power, a strike is very very quick so the power doesn’t travel very far through the water.

Question: When lightning hits the water why don't all the creatures in the sea die?