Stingray death

[desertrat]

cbs3.com - Woman Killed In Freak Eagle Ray Incident In Fla.
Jorge Pino, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said a woman was on a boat with her family off Marathon, Fla. when an Eagle Ray jumped out of the water next to the vessel Thursday morning. The animal reportedly struck the 55-year old woman who fell backward and suffered a severe head trauma.

Initial reports had indicated that the animal's sharp defensive barb, located near the base of its tail, had lodged in the woman's neck.

 

[Dye Tied]

cbs3.com - Woman Killed In Freak Eagle Ray Incident In Fla.
Jorge Pino, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said a woman was on a boat with her family off Marathon, Fla. when an Eagle Ray jumped out of the water next to the vessel Thursday morning. The animal reportedly struck the 55-year old woman who fell backward and suffered a severe head trauma.

Initial reports had indicated that the animal's sharp defensive barb, located near the base of its tail, had lodged in the woman's neck.

She never had time to cancel her credit cards.

 

[toppick08]

She never had time to cancel her credit cards.

 

[pixiegirl]

She never had time to cancel her credit cards.

Thanks. There's Dr. Pepper on my monitor now!

 

[huntr1]

Thanks. There's Dr. Pepper on my monitor now!

Mountain Dew here.

 

[Pasofever]

As a kid living in the keys I remember swimming with them..one day at a friends house we were jumping off the bridge into the water and swimming to the beach to get out of the water...A friends father (who lived where the beach was) was just walking in the water at the beach..he stepped on a ray..I still to this day can picture that man screaming..he screamed and screamed must be horrible pain..

 

[desertrat]

She never had time to cancel her credit cards.

 

[toppick08]

I know a man here who got stung by a skate in the Wicomico, and damn near died.

Nothing to be taken lightly.

 

[mainman]

:crikey:

 

[aps45819]

I know a man here who got stung by a skate in the Wicomico, and damn near died.

Nothing to be taken lightly.

Where the southern shore of the Rappahanock river meets the bay is Stringray point.
Named because John Smith stepped on a stringray there. He almost died, but the natives took him around the point on the northern bank of the Rappahanock and up a small tributary where a plant grew that would counteract the effects of the ray's sting.
That is now known as Antipoison Creek

 

[Larry Gude]

I don't see...

cbs3.com - Woman Killed In Freak Eagle Ray Incident In Fla.
Jorge Pino, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said a woman was on a boat with her family off Marathon, Fla. when an Eagle Ray jumped out of the water next to the vessel Thursday morning. The animal reportedly struck the 55-year old woman who fell backward and suffered a severe head trauma.

Initial reports had indicated that the animal's sharp defensive barb, located near the base of its tail, had lodged in the woman's neck.

...where it says whether the ray lived or died. Another misleading, sensationalist headline!

 

[toppick08]

Where the southern shore of the Rappahanock river meets the bay is Stringray point.
Named because John Smith stepped on a stringray there. He almost died, but the natives took him around the point on the northern bank of the Rappahanock and up a small tributary where a plant grew that would counteract the effects of the ray's sting.
That is now known as Antipoison Creek

Did not know that.......thanks for info...

 

[LordStanley]

:crikey:

insensitive prick

 

[toppick08]

insensitive prick

That was pretty common..........

 

[BS Gal]

She never had time to cancel her credit cards.

 

[LordStanley]

That was pretty common..........

Inside thing between Mainman and I.

 

[MMDad]

I know a man here who got stung by a skate in the Wicomico, and damn near died.

Nothing to be taken lightly.

Stung by a skate, huh? Are you sure about that?

 

[theArtistFormerlyKnownAs]

Stung by a skate, huh? Are you sure about that?

My thoughts exactly...I was under the impression that skates do not have a "stinging mechanism" (as in...they don't have the barbs, or toxins, ect)...

 

[Pasofever]

Where the southern shore of the Rappahanock river meets the bay is Stringray point.
Named because John Smith stepped on a stringray there. He almost died, but the natives took him around the point on the northern bank of the Rappahanock and up a small tributary where a plant grew that would counteract the effects of the ray's sting.
That is now known as Antipoison Creek

You were there?? :shrug:

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

My thoughts exactly...I was under the impression that skates do not have a "stinging mechanism" (as in...they don't have the barbs, or toxins, ect)...

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Skate actually don't have the toxins or barbs or Debs or Meg's.
Sorry...... Skate are "cousins" for lack of a better term; of the Sting Ray/Eagle Ray.

Hey, I just remembered something from the Discovery Channel.
WellwhadUknow'boutdat?