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Jun 25, 2008 6:14 am US/Eastern

Stingray Attacks Reported Along Delaware Shore

Reporting
Robin Rieger
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (CBS 3) ― Experts are offering advice to ocean swimmers after two stingray attacks along the Delaware shoreline.

Since Memorial Day, two people have reportedly been stung by stingrays on the shores of Rehoboth Beach, but experts say it is not a cause for alarm.

"Stingrays are one of the most peaceful creatures in the ocean, it's definitely an accident, it's definitely rare," Marc Kind of the Adventure Aquarium in Camden said.

Experts like Kind say you could be standing next to a stingray in the water and not even know it was there. But accidentally step on a stingray and you could set off its defenses.

"What stingrays will do is actually project or flex their tail, which moves the tail away and puts that spine up in a location where it's most easily driven into its prey," Kind explained.

Steve Irwin a.k.a. "The Crocodile Hunter" had a fatal encounter with a stingray in Australia back in 2006.

Kind offered up some advice in the event of an encounter with a stingray.

"The advice is to leave the object in there and allow the emergency room to pull that out when they're ready to also stop the bleeding," Kind said.




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