An Australian fisherman has survived being stabbed in the chest by a stingray, the marine creature that killed Aussie crocodile hunter Steve Irwin two months ago, police said. The fisherman was on board a prawn trawler off the coast of South Australia when the usually-placid creature on Wednesday plunged one of its razor-sharp tail barbs into the man's chest.
Police said the barb did not lodge in the fisherman's chest or cause any respiratory problems and he was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital with minor injuries.
Stingrays are frequently caught up in fishermen's nets and have been known to lash out when they land on the deck of a ship.
The incident occurred just two months after croc wrangler Irwin was stabbed in the heart by a stingray as he snorkelled on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia.
Irwin's death and the massive outpouring of grief prompted the wildlife warrior's friends and family and conservation groups to urge Australians not to take revenge on stingrays.
