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Kristie O’Brien had been wading through the shallow waters at Bahia Beach, near Tampa, when she was skewered by the little sea creature. The wound was four inches dead and missed her lung by centimetres
A woman was left “certain” she was going to die, after getting stung by a stingray while on a leisurely trip to the beach.
Kristie O’Brien was wading through knee deep water at Bahia Beach near Tampa, Florida, when she was impaled by being stabbed in the back by the Southern stingray. The venomous spine went four inches deep and missed her lung by centimetres.
She told FOX 13: “I was trying to stay as calm as I could. But I was certain that I was going to die because, I mean, like everyone has like this picture of Steve Irwin when he literally was punctured in his chest.”
The famous conservationist and television personality Irwin, known as The Crocodile Hunter, died after being stung in the heart by a stingray barb while filming in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.