A father-of-two is recovering in the hospital after being stabbed by a stingray while diving in the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand.
Mark Donaldson was eyeing up some crayfish off Waiheke Island when the stingray cruised under him and struck. The blow was so strong it pierced the two wetsuits he was wearing… just a centimeter from his privates!
The 49-year-old was airlifted to Auckland City Hospital by helicopter and immediately given morphine. Check out the full story and pics here.
Stingrays have stung about 130 people since Wednesday and most of them were at La Jolla Shores, lifeguards said.
Three people were hospitalized Wednesday. Lifeguards said that at one point, they were treating 11 or 12 people at the same time.
The stingrays are still stinging people around Southern California. The rays are blamed for injuring an estimated 120 to 130 people over the past three days, with 21 of those cases occurring Friday. Most of the stings occurred at La Jolla Shores and three people have been hospitalized so far.
Southern California, stay out of the water! Officials say 30 people have been stung by stingrays at San Diego County beaches and one person was taken to a hospital.
San Diego Lifeguard Lt. Nick Lerma says eight of the 30 were stung after 3 p.m. Wednesday at La Jolla Shores and Black’s Beach. Paramedics helped lifeguards in treating the injuries because so many people were stung at the same time.
Six people also reported being stung at Seal Beach in Orange County.
Looks like stingray season has hit Florida a little early this year. At least half of a dozen people were stung in the water along the mile long stretch of Clearwater Beach on Friday. Time to get your shuffle on.
An underwater camera crew filming for the BBC has recorded a smalleye stingray swimming off the coast of Mozambique.
The smalleye stingray is the largest of all 70 species of stingray… more than 7 ft wide. The elusive creature, first discovered in 1908, has only ever been seen alive off Tofo in southern Mozambique.
Film of a live specimen was recorded by an underwater film crew working for independent production company Big Wave productions, which was making a documentary about manta rays with Dr Marshall.
The footage was shot as part of the programme “Andrea: Queen of the Mantas” for the BBC documentary series Natural World.
A 200-pound stingray jumped into a Cape Coral, FL couple’s boat!
You may remember last year incident where a Michigan woman was killed after a stingray hit her after it jumped into her boat in the Keys. Luckily this time, nobody was hurt.
British angler Ian Welch landed what could be the biggest freshwater fish ever caught with a rod and line.
The giant freshwater stingray was caught in Thailand and weighed 772lbs. It was so massive that Welch needed 12 other people to help get it out of the water.
Remember that guy that got gashed by a stingray the other day? Well, he’s out of the hospital and doing fine. But apparently doctors investigated the internal injuries with a small camera through his belly button and found that the stingray had missed his spleen by a millimeter, and just missed his diaphragm and kidneys too. Phew!
