I remember being in the water with a entire school of stingrays off Crandon Park Beach South Florida....they we beautiful and all swimming in formataion. I never realized they were so deadly.
He was a good guy and entertaining. His wife and kids must be devastated.
Stingray venom has insidious, but powerful, localized tissue necrosing properties in humans.
What this means is, it kills any tissue it touches. If any part of Steve's heart was penetrated, fatal cardiac arrest would have ensured.
Are you a diver? I'm putting together a scuba ping list.
They are only deadly if you take a barb to the chest, apparently. We have been in the water with hundreds of stingrays. We've even fed them. They are beautiful.