The Scorge of the Sea . .

[CaptnKirk]

Attack !

How often do you find stingrays, of all things, carrying out a vendetta on humans.

This is just plain bizzare.

 

[Pepsei]

it's a stingray revolution....

 

[International Machine Consortium]

Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

 

[Canai]

They have obviously been military trained to assassinate people and have escaped their cages.

 

[Genx87]

I sense a media frenzy over those deadly stingrays!

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

It is very interesting indeed.

First of all being in the Intracoastal canal and not out in deep water and leaping out of the water?

WTF is up with that?

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

:laugh:

 

[CaptnKirk]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

It is very interesting indeed.

First of all being in the Intracoastal canal and not out in deep water and leaping out of the water?

WTF is up with that?

It is quite normal for rays to jump out of the water, it's thought that is how they lay their eggs, or remove parasites.
When their body
hits the water after a jump it pushes out the egg sac and separates it from the animal, or causes parasites to fall off.

Matter of fact, there have been instances of boats being crushed when really big rays - like the Manta Rays landed on top of small boats.
Mantas have been found to be up to about 20 feet accross and weighing 3,000 Lbs.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

It is very interesting indeed.

First of all being in the Intracoastal canal and not out in deep water and leaping out of the water?

WTF is up with that?

It is quite normal for rays to jump out of the water, it's thought that is how they lay their eggs, or remove parasites.
When their body
hits the water after a jump it pushes out the egg sac and separates it from the animal, or causes parasites to fall off.

Matter of fact, there have been instances of boats being crushed when really big rays - like the Manta Rays landed on top of small boats.
Mantas have been found to be up to about 20 feet accross and weighing 3,000 Lbs.

They're probably pissed off:

10-19-2006U.N.: Number of ocean 'dead zones' rise

The number of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the world's seas and oceans has risen more than a third in the past two years because of fertilizer, sewage, animal waste and fossil-fuel burning, United Nations experts said Thursday.

The U.N. report estimates there will be a 14 percent rise in the amount of nitrogen that rivers are pumping into seas and oceans globally over a period from when the levels were measured in the mid-1990s to 2030.

Oxygen starvation robs the seas and oceans of many fish, oysters, sea grass beds and other marine life ? and the number of such dead zones has grown every decade since the 1970s.

Dead zones first were reported in the United States' Chesapeake Bay; the Baltic Sea; the Kattegat bay in the North Sea; the Black Sea; the northern Adriatic Sea; and some Scandinavian fjords.

Others have appeared off South America, China, Japan, southeast Australia and New Zealand, according to U.N. research led by Robert Diaz, a marine scientist at Virginia's College of William & Mary.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

It is very interesting indeed.

First of all being in the Intracoastal canal and not out in deep water and leaping out of the water?

WTF is up with that?

It is quite normal for rays to jump out of the water, it's thought that is how they lay their eggs, or remove parasites.

I've never seen one jump backward, tail-first?

Or heard of one with the stinger in its forhead.

This is weird. Seems more likely to me someone hooked it when fishing. Then pulled it out of the water and up into the boat hitting the old dude. It would have its stinger out in those circumstances.

Fern

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: International Machine Consortium
Holy Sh*t! They're taking matters into their own...barbs.

It is very interesting indeed.

First of all being in the Intracoastal canal and not out in deep water and leaping out of the water?

WTF is up with that?

It is quite normal for rays to jump out of the water, it's thought that is how they lay their eggs, or remove parasites.

I've never seen one jump backward, tail-first?

Or heard of one with the stinger in its forhead.

This is weird. Seems more likely to me someone hooked it when fishing. Then pulled it out of the water and up into the boat hitting the old dude. It would have its stinger out in those circumstances.

Fern

CNN has a Video report. It apparently jumped over the boat and got him square in the chest.

The Barb pierced his lungs and heart, they sewed him up but couldn't find the Barb, they think it went out of the heart into his Aorta and stuck somewhere.

Shouldn't they be able to see it with an MRI?

 

[CaptnKirk]

Originally posted by: Fern


I've never seen one jump backward, tail-first?

Or heard of one with the stinger in its forhead.

This is weird. Seems more likely to me someone hooked it when fishing. Then pulled it out of the water and up into the boat hitting the old dude. It would have its stinger out in those circumstances.

Fern

It's a new game of Ultimate Terminal Frisee - you throw the stingray back and forth and with each catch you take one step back.
If you mis-judge and botch the catch, you're done, really done . . .

 

[Aisengard]

Alright, that's it. It's time to declare the War on Stingrays.

 

[Schadenfroh]

All these liberals do to protect mother nature and all she does is come back and sting them on the chest.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
CNN has a Video report. It apparently jumped over the boat and got him square in the chest.
The Barb pierced his lungs and heart, they sewed him up but couldn't find the Barb, they think it went out of the heart into his Aorta and stuck somewhere.
Shouldn't they be able to see it with an MRI?

I've heard nothing about it piercing the heart and lungs. Perhaps that was just a bit of sensationalism while they waited for the actual facts?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
CNN has a Video report. It apparently jumped over the boat and got him square in the chest.
The Barb pierced his lungs and heart, they sewed him up but couldn't find the Barb, they think it went out of the heart into his Aorta and stuck somewhere.
Shouldn't they be able to see it with an MRI?

I've heard nothing about it piercing the heart and lungs. Perhaps that was just a bit of sensationalism while they waited for the actual facts?

Here is the Video with the Surgeon himself saying how he had to sew up his lung and heart.

He is still in critical condition and may not survive.

(Watch the surgeon's demo of what happened to Bertakis' heart and why the barb went deeper -- 12:03)

Man in critical condition after stingray attack in boat

Doctors were able to remove the barb during surgeries Wednesday and Thursday by eventually pulling it through his heart and closing the wound, said Dr. Eugene Costantini at Broward General Medical Center.

He said Bertakis' case was different from Irwin's because the barb stayed in Bertakis' heart and was not pulled out.