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Stingray Attacks Reported Along Delaware Shore

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (CBS 3) ― Experts are offering advice to ocean swimmers after two stingray attacks along the Delaware shoreline.

Since Memorial Day, two people have reportedly been stung by stingrays on the shores of Rehoboth Beach, but experts say it is not a cause for alarm.

"Stingrays are one of the most peaceful creatures in the ocean, it's definitely an accident, it's definitely rare," Marc Kind of the Adventure Aquarium in Camden said.

Experts like Kind say you could be standing next to a stingray in the water and not even know it was there. But accidentally step on a stingray and you could set off its defenses.

"What stingrays will do is actually project or flex their tail, which moves the tail away and puts that spine up in a location where it's most easily driven into its prey," Kind explained.

Steve Irwin a.k.a. "The Crocodile Hunter" had a fatal encounter with a stingray in Australia back in 2006.

Kind offered up some advice in the event of an encounter with a stingray.

"The advice is to leave the object in there and allow the emergency room to pull that out when they're ready to also stop the bleeding," Kind said.

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So.. this is about people attacking the sting rays and getting stung?

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What it fails to tell us is how to avoid being stung.

The answer to that is, shuffle your feet in the sand when walking in the water. It causes the Stingray see you coming and they typically swim away instead of defending themselves.

Can you imagine going to the emergency room with a stingray hanging off of you.

The newest fad in dog treats is dried sting ray tails.

Yeah I'm not sure how that works. I know one thing though: They STINK like no stink has ever stunk before.

I ran up to a four foot stingray in the Islands once. Why? Because I am a complete idiot that's why. (and I was drunk on rum punch). The thing swam up to the shoreline, and I ran up and had my wife take a picture. The frickin' tail when straight up in the air (I thought I had turned it on perhaps, but now I know that is their first "warning" that they are going to zap your ass).

To this day, I still get "why the hell did you do that stupid" from my wife.

umm.. A. Because I AM stupid
B. Because I'm a dude (see A. above)
C. Because I was drunk in the Islands (see B. above)

Crikey!

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Look at this stingray, wouldja? She's a BEAUT!

What's up? I've lived near the beaches for 15 years and before that was a weekender since 1977 missing very few weekends. And never heard of a stingray locally.Jelly Fish sure but not sting rays in our colder water. Sure I've been in a pen with stingrays in Orlando.. Never actually saw one or heard of someone being attacked during my trips to the Bahamas or Jamajca .

You don't see them, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. My mom and dad used to live around Slaughter beach before I was born, and see them washed up dead all the time. My dad had a part of the skeleton of one that he found on the beach there hanging up in his house, along with a dolphin skull he found on the same stretch of beach.

We've been going surf fishing at Broadkill frequently every summer for the past 5 years (my SO for much longer, 'cause his family has a house there), and catch sting rays all the time. You get something that feels like dead weight on your line but doesn't really fight.. sting ray or horse shoe crab. Always.

I've caught Skate on the beach, and they look like a cross between a Sting Ray and a Flounder.

Yeah there's a lot of clear nosed skates down there too.

The ones we normally catch are southern stingrays. My Audubon Society book on Fishes, Whales and Dolphins says that their range is from New Jersey to Brazil.



The Roughtail stingray is found from Massachusetts to Florida.

The Diamond Stingray is found from Canada to Peru.

DOES NOT APPROVE OF ANYONE TOUCHING STINGRAYS!!!!!!





Y'all heard that Bindy is marketing her own line of sunblock now....
The pitch she uses is:
This sunblock blocks out 96% of the harmful rays....
If my Daddy was wearing it, he would still be here today......

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Number one being, you're fightin' in a basement!

I've been swimming with rays before, almost a dozen different varities. They're very gentle, and some are downright social. I've had them swim right up to me and nuzzle against my arm and kiss my toes.

Awww......

"F" THAT.. Just another reason for me NOT to get in the water..
I hated getting into water I can't see through before..I did it anyway.. But now, I know not to get in.. I get the heeby jeeby's just thinking about it...

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"Garbage In, Garbage Out"
-G. Carlin

I will BEAT a stringray's ass if it stings me, dude, it's a fish.

A shark is a fish also (actually the Stingray and the Shark are in the same category), I wouldn't suggest beating their ass...

Dude.. Take it from Steve Irwin.. You stand a huge chance of losing...

I hate getting stung by a bee.. Couldn't imagine a Stingray sting.. Christ, it has STING in its' name.. I think it knows its business....

You could beat a dog fish's ass. That's a shark.