'The pain is insane': Infamous bow hunter Peter Griffith shares experience after sting ray bite
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A hunter shared his awful experience of getting bitten by a sting ray in Queensland. Peter Griffith was bow hunting in the middle of a mangrove with his friend and first-time bowhunter Suzanne Martin in Bowen when he was struck by their prey. Griffith then shared a video of him and his friend on a hunting expedition, where they can be seen successfully catching two sting rays.
In the posted video, Griffith and his friend displayed a sting ray and started explaining how incredibly sharp the barbs are as his companion clipped one of them from the fish's tail. “That’s the barb, like the barb that killed Steve Irwin,” he said. “We don’t want to step on that.” “They’re pretty ... tough these things.” Griffiths' remark was in reference to the shocking death of a naturalist and crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, in 2006, who was killed after being repeatedly stung by stingrays in the chest. At the end of the video, Griffiths is shown at a hospital with his hand in a bowl of ice water, as per 7 News.
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'The pain is insane'
In the Facebook post, he shared on his page, he informed the viewers that he had been stung by a sting ray and described the pain as "insane." “It’s no wonder Steve Irwin was taken out by one of these. The pain is insane and there’s no way I’d want to go through this again,” he said. “The pain was instant and both of us knew we had to get out of the water asap. We were about 400m into the mangroves and waist deep,” he further added.
Griffiths claimed that although the pain "was coming in waves," it started off at a 5/10 and considerably increased to a 6-7/10. “When we got to the emergency (department) the doctors gave me 15mg morphine, Endone, Panadol and I don’t know what else.” A few days later, Griffiths shared a photo on Facebook in which he displayed the two enormous barbs that had been yanked from his hand. He described how the sting was still "coursing through my veins" in his post. “The point is sharp like a needle with barbs all the way down the sides Pretty cool memento ... certainly pays to wear gloves,” he wrote.
Seek emergency medical attention
According to Griffiths, he is still recovering from the incident. Anyone who has been stung by a stingray is advised by the nonprofit St. John Ambulance Western Australia to seek emergency medical attention. The affected person should stop any severe bleeding before immersing the part that has been stung in hot water, leaving the embedded spines in place, Yahoo News reported.