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Nick_Carlson_Press t1_iym1ce3 wrote

He'll live. Stingray venom is extremely painful but it's nonlethal unless it punctures vital organs directly or the victim undergoes shock or some other reaction, which is quite rare

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MeccGo t1_iym1lxh wrote

Good to hear he was ok I guess we all remember that one popular person who died off a stingray, so I wasn't sure..

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Nick_Carlson_Press t1_iym67ii wrote

That one popular person (PBUH) ultimately died not from the venom but from blood loss and shock. The barb hit him right in an artery iirc. He basically got stabbed with a knife. Some of the biggest stingrays can have barbs up to ten inches or more

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TheGreyPearlDahlia t1_iymdf42 wrote

That one "popular person" was Steve Irwin.

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MeccGo t1_iymlf0l wrote

Yeah, I just didn't remember at the time I was writing the first comment

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