Guy gets bit by a stingray on Grand Cayman Island

Stingray City is a series of shallow sandbars found in the North Sound of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. It is a tourist attraction, where southern stingrays are found in abundance and visitors can pet and interact with the animals. The tours here are very regulated to keep the animals safe with such a great amount of human interaction. The southern stingray seen here has a flat, diamond-shaped disc, with a mud brown, olive, and grey dorsal surface and white underbelly. The barb on its tail is serrated and covered in a venomous mucous, used for self-defense. With such great interaction here, many of these local rays have come to be very friendly and interactive with visitors. The stingrays eat mainly small fishworms and crustaceans which is why they cruise the sea bed and sandy floor looking for a meal. Larger rays ,with the incredible amount of suction they are capable of creating for gathering food, can even suck a conch snail right out of it’s shell. The day Brent and his wife and step daughter visited stingray city, was the day Brent got to experience just how these rays gather food. Once their tour arrived at the site, they were all given a background on the rays, how they feed and how to handle them. It is very safe here, shuffle your feet when walking, and TRY TO AVOID LIFTING THEM OUT OF THE WATER!! Some things are easier said than done as Brent learned. When feeding squid to the rays, which they love, everyone was instructed to “keep your thumbed tucked inside your fingers “ saving you from having your thumbed sucked between the hard bony serrated plates they use for grinding food. Another thing Brent forgot, as you will see. After a short instruction from Britney, one of the guides, Brent was game to feed, and cuddle with one of these amazing animals. Watch and see how it all goes…. of course it went great! These are beautiful creatures in a beautiful part of our world.