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They're gonna need a bigger boat.
Spotted Eagle Ray collides with boater
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Underwater Ogre
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...another decade of Jaws terror!!Hopefully the media doesn't go too far with this.
But seriously...I feel for the family.
Giant ray kills Michigan woman in boat in Keys -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Is this the story you are talking about... the link didn't work for me in the first post.
Yes, Theresa, that's the story. Bizzare, isn't it?
Hopefully the media doesn't go too far with this.
But seriously...I feel for the family.
If you're concerned about family maybe putting the rofl comment is a bit over the top?
tltracy
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Hi Sandy... bizzare is right... I've seen them do their loop-de-loops and skipping across the water like a skipped stone before... but WEIRD!!
It sounds like it was an incident where a boat with people on it were in the wrong place at the wrong time. What are the chances of something happening like that (being rhetorical, not really asking)? The poor ray probably didn't even realize the boat was there. It was probably as dumbfounded as the people to find itself in that predicament.
MeiLing
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I was thinking the same thing when I read the article on Yahoo this morning!
I think someone ought to write an article about how many couch potatoes die choking on potato chips to put things like this into the proper perspective!
I think someone ought to write an article about how many couch potatoes die choking on potato chips to put things like this into the proper perspective!
I just read an article on Drudge (Marathon, FL) that said that a woman was killed by a stingray down there, supposedly when it jumped out of the water and into the boat she was in. It seems that the ray crashed into the woman and killed her. Any other news about this?
CNN News
"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
The dead stingray lies on the deck of a boat in Florida.
"It's just as freakish of an accident as I have heard," said Jorge Pino of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. "The chances of this occurring are so remote that most of us are completely astonished that this happened."
He said it was not clear whether the 55-year-old Michigan woman died from the blow to her head, from the ray's barb piercing her or from her fall backward.
The accident happened off the coast of Marathon Key, in the Florida Keys about an hour's drive south of Miami. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was taken to the Mariner Hospital in Tavernier, where she was pronounced dead.
Pino said he had seen stingrays leap into the air, but added, "it's very rare for them to collide with objects."
Results from an autopsy to be conducted by the medical examiner will be combined with witness statements and evidence from aboard the vessel to determine the cause of death, he said.
The spotted eagle ray weighed about 75 pounds, said Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
The species, also called a leopard ray or bonnet skate, can measure up to 8 feet in length, with an 8-foot tail, and weigh up to 500 pounds, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's Web site.
They tend to swim close to the surface and can leap out of the water when being pursued, according to the site"
I bolded the part that the news won't focus on.
"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
The dead stingray lies on the deck of a boat in Florida.
"It's just as freakish of an accident as I have heard," said Jorge Pino of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. "The chances of this occurring are so remote that most of us are completely astonished that this happened."
He said it was not clear whether the 55-year-old Michigan woman died from the blow to her head, from the ray's barb piercing her or from her fall backward.
The accident happened off the coast of Marathon Key, in the Florida Keys about an hour's drive south of Miami. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was taken to the Mariner Hospital in Tavernier, where she was pronounced dead.
Pino said he had seen stingrays leap into the air, but added, "it's very rare for them to collide with objects."
Results from an autopsy to be conducted by the medical examiner will be combined with witness statements and evidence from aboard the vessel to determine the cause of death, he said.
The spotted eagle ray weighed about 75 pounds, said Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
The species, also called a leopard ray or bonnet skate, can measure up to 8 feet in length, with an 8-foot tail, and weigh up to 500 pounds, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's Web site.
They tend to swim close to the surface and can leap out of the water when being pursued, according to the site"
I bolded the part that the news won't focus on.
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