Saw the biggest stingray I've ever seen last Saturday

[Florabama]

I didn't get a picture because I was spearfishing, but this guy was 8 feet across if he was an inch. I suspect he was 14 feet from tail to nose. His tail at the base was the thickness of my forearm, and his stinger looked like a railroad spike. He was sitting on the bottom at 90 feet, and his head and eyes were a foot off bottom.

This kind of thing is what keeps me coming back to diving. There's always something amazing that makes you go wow.

 

[dlndavid]

Cool, I saw one at least that big off Isla Mujeres, huge.

 

[archman]

Lucky.

 

[Chad_Ordelheide]

How does the saying go..."If you didn't get a picture, you didn't see it" Naw, that awesome!!

 

[Florabama]

How does the saying go..."If you didn't get a picture, you didn't see it" Naw, that awesome!!

I was thinking exactly that, and I almost didn't post anything about it because who's to say it was true or not, but I knew the members of ScubaBoard would give me the benefit of the doubt

Besides, I didn't even tell you about the bull shark I saw that was 23 feet long and weighed around 5000 lbs

 

[DennisW]

Southern Stingrays can get pretty large. That's a big one.

 

[Walter]

I know you saw a very large stingray, but I'm curious, why do you think it was 8 feet across and not 7 or 9? Did you have a reference of known size?

 

[dlndavid]

eight just sounds better imo hey lucky me I got post 8

 

[Humuhumunukunukuapua'a]

I bet it was 9...

9 is better either way

 

[Jim Ernst]

i think he is bs-ing us on the stingray , but the bull shark i believe every word of it!!lol