Here is thy sting (and thy video) - Stingray City Article

Ally · 10-21-2007, 06:38 AM

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GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands -- To remember your visit to Stingray City sandbar, you can buy a souvenir video for $55. The picture will be of you. You just won't hear your voice.

"There is no sound in the video because we put music on it to cover up the screaming," explains a ponytailed videographer aboard the little boat Amazon as it chugs into glistening North Sound.

Screaming? Cover up the screaming?

Not to worry.

You do scream when you jump into the ocean to meet schools of stingrays. But not because they hurt you.

You scream because it feels really strange to be bumped by rubbery sea animals.

You scream because you're standing on a sandbar miles out in the sea.

You do scream. Right before you laugh.

"I don't like the ocean, but I loved this," says Benny McKee of Knoxville, Ill., dripping wet and smiling after his brush with the rays.

Here is thy sting (and thy video)