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Posts tagged Dangerous Marine Animals

Beware the Devil Fish – “Don’t tread on me”

Dec 09, 2014 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
southern stingrays

Stingrays primarily inhabit shallow tropical to semi-tropical waters with sandy bottoms, so it is no surprise that we surfers often cross paths with these evil-looking bottom feeders. Indeed certain locales, such as Nosara, Costa Rica, Southern California, and New Zealand’s North Island are infamous for their large populations of rays. Though, closely related to sharks they share none of the dentition or

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Posted in Acute Surfing Injury, Environmental Injury, Literature Review - Tagged Marine Envenomations, Stingray

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