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Heading to the Beach? How to Avoid Getting Stung by a Stingray
NBC San Diego ^ | 3/17 | Noreen O'Donnell

Posted on 03/17/2015 9:05:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/17/2015 9:05:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Stay out of the water?


2 posted on 03/17/2015 9:06:28 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Works for me.


3 posted on 03/17/2015 9:22:55 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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In Grand Cayman there is a tour that takes you to swim with stingrays (Stingray City, I think they call it). There are many...many stingrays that swim all around you. You swim with fins and goggles. I thought it was one of the most interesting tours there.


4 posted on 03/17/2015 9:24:03 PM PDT by stevem
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It’s snowing here. No chance of meeting up with any stingrays.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 9:42:45 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Why can’t they just put out some stingray free zone signs in the places people want to swim? Those stingrays have plenty of other areas they can use. It’s not fair.


6 posted on 03/17/2015 9:53:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I think I came closely stepping on a Stingray. I’m not sure if it was a Stingray. It had a clear translucent body. Not sure if Stingrays are clear. I recall running through the beach with my cousins and all of sudden, for some unknown reason, I immediately stopped and looked down and saw this thing that had a tail. I realize I almost came to stepping on it. I believe it was in the Santa Cruz Beach.


7 posted on 03/17/2015 10:02:23 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Sounds like a jellyfish. Santa Cruz, CA?


8 posted on 03/17/2015 10:06:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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never walk. always keep your toes sliding under the sand.


9 posted on 03/17/2015 10:10:05 PM PDT by BOOHA
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Since when does SoCal have stingrays?

I lived there for most of my life until my mid 20's and never heard of it.

Saw eagle rays scuba diving years later, sure.

10 posted on 03/17/2015 10:28:31 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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Also important...

How to Avoid Huge Ships

11 posted on 03/17/2015 10:31:58 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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Perhaps it was a Jellyfish, but it was an ugly thing I have ever seen lol. Yes it had to been at Santa Cruz because my cousins lived in San Jose at that time. I remember we picked them up and we drove down there.


12 posted on 03/17/2015 11:28:42 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: stevem
In Grand Cayman there is a tour that takes you to swim with stingrays (Stingray City, I think they call it). There are many...many stingrays that swim all around you. You swim with fins and goggles. I thought it was one of the most interesting tours there.

Been there done that. 3 feet of water and hundreds of those things all around you. "Shuffle your feet on the sand and don't step on one" was the rule.

13 posted on 03/17/2015 11:44:44 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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That’s it, slide your toe/feet under the sand as you walk; how a lot of surfers do it too in Australia.


14 posted on 03/18/2015 4:21:22 AM PDT by odds
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Swim in fresh water.


15 posted on 03/18/2015 4:53:56 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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I’ve never seen one and we have a boat in Ventura Harbor. We have tons of batrays and skates.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 7:18:39 AM PDT by sheana
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To: nickcarraway; Salamander

I’ve never encountered a stingray in the wild, but last time we went to the aquarium in Virginia Beach, we visited the ray tank. One of those little fellows kept swimming up to me, poking his head out of the water to be patted.


17 posted on 03/18/2015 7:27:34 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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Did you oblige?


18 posted on 03/18/2015 8:28:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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LOL, repeatedly!


19 posted on 03/18/2015 9:11:35 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Patriot Babe
It had a clear translucent body. Not sure if Stingrays are clear.

Their coloration pretty much matches the background of the sand on the bottom, so it may appear that they are translucent and you're seeing the bottom through them.

20 posted on 03/18/2015 9:28:55 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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