09/18/11 - DVCers Take Over the Dream (S.S. Member Cruise 2011)

susieq55 · Oct 6, 2010

Hoosier John said:
As I recall Steve Irwin was merely swimming above the stingrays, not threatening them, and one got him in the chest as if by accident. This caused paralasis and/or heart stoppage very quickly.
About a month later we were on a swim with the stingrays excursion in the Caymen Islands (Carnival Cruise). They took pictures, which I can't track down right now.
I definately wasn't thinking of sharks at the time. The guides convieniently brought food to attract the rays and get them in a furvor. They would grab a ray and put him on your back, where they gave you a hickey.
All fairly fun until it was time to reboard the boat. I was the last one to the ladder, and being the only one who might have any more food still in the water, they were all over me. Knowing that Crockadile Hunter, who knows a lot more about rays than I do, was taken by one, created memories not soon forgotten. No stings though, all is good.

that must have been scary!