A Florida woman is recovering after a stingray impaled her back and came within an inch of her lung with one of its barbs. Kristie Cataffo-O’Brien had to undergo surgery to remove the stinger, spent a ...

"It was super, super painful," Kristie Cataffo-O'Brien said after the stingray incident A Florida woman is recovering after a venomous stingray impaled her back — narrowly missing her lungs — while ...

RUSKIN, Fla. (WFLA) — A Tampa woman is recovering after being impaled by a venomous stingray while in Ruskin. The stingray’s barb was buried a few inches deep into her back, just missing her lungs.

A woman has narrowly escaped death after being attacked by a stingray while snorkeling in South Australia. Pam Bennett, 68, was snorkeling 50 meters offshore at Treasure Cove on the southern Yorke ...

A Palm Beach Gardens man is in the hospital after he was speared by a stingray off the coast of Riviera Beach on Monday afternoon. The man, 19, was surfing when he suffered a severe injury he thought ...

RUSKIN, Fla. - A sunny day at the beach turned into a week-long hospital stay for an Apollo Beach woman after she was punctured in the back on Tuesday by a stingray's venomous spine. Kristie O'Brien ...

A volunteer marine researcher whose arm was skewered by a 16-centimetre stingray barb says she could easily have met with the same tragic fate as Steve Irwin, and was shocked by the x-ray of her ...

The barb of the animal sank a few inches into Kristie Cataffo-O’Brien’s back, barely missing her lungs, WFLA-TV reported. Cataffo-O’Brien, of Tampa, was visiting Bahia Beach in Ruskin, located about ...

James Bertakis tried to swat a stingray away after it flopped onto his boat Wednesday. For his trouble, the 3-foot-wide ray stung him, leaving a barb in his chest that eventually lodged in his heart.

"It was super, super painful," Kristie Cataffo-O’Brien said after the stingray incident Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the News team at PEOPLE, covering Weekends. She joined the brand in ...