LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. — A Lighthouse Point man is in critical condition this morning, a day after authorities say a stingray jumped onto his boat
and stabbed him in the chest, leaving a foot-long barb stuck in him.
Eighty-one-year-old James Bertakis was boating with his grown granddaughter and her friend yesterday afternoon when the rare attack occurred.
Surgeons were able to remove some of the barb, but weren't able to locate the rest and fear it may have migrated.
Firefighters say the roughly five-foot wide, 30 pound stingray died on the
boat. |