Man Suffers Agony As Stingray Latches On To His Genitals [Video]

A man got stung by a stingray on his genitals while swimming in a China sea recently. The man was left rolling around on the sand in pain with the stingray still attached to his penis.

The man managed to crawl back onto the beach in Sanya in China's Hainan province. Emergency workers immediately rushed in to help the man but they did not have the specific tools to remove the stingray barb. However, they managed to fully remove and unhook the spiny tail from the man's genitals with the help of a pair of large utility scissors.

Once the workers managed to release the tail, the man, clearly in pain, managed to stand and was taken to a nearby hospital for a checkup. The man is in a stable condition now.

Onlookers crowded around the man and some even filmed the unfortunate incident. Footage of the man shared on social media showed the man wincing in pain surrounded by worried onlookers who called for help. Witnesses claimed the fish died on the beach post the incident.

The man reportedly was a tourist who was enjoying the tropical weather when the bizarre incident took place.

In 2006, World-famous "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed after he was pierced in the chest by a stingray barb. The only person to witness the moment, Justin Lyons, said the jagged barb punctured Irwin's chest dozens of times, causing a massive injury to his heart.

"He obviously didn't know it had punctured his heart but he knew it had punctured his lung,” he said.

"He was having trouble breathing. Even if we'd been able to get him into an emergency ward at that moment we probably wouldn't have been able to save him, because the damage to his heart was massive. As we're motoring back I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound and we're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on.' He just sort of calmly looked up at me and said, 'I'm dying.' And that was the last thing he said,” Lyons said, The Guardian reported.

Stingrays are considered to be docile creatures, only attacking in self-defense. Most stingray-related injuries occur to the ankles and lower legs, when someone accidentally steps on the fish buried in the sand. The ray flips up its dangerous tail out of fear.

Stingray-related deaths are extremely rare, partly because a stingray's venom isn't usually deadly unless the initial strike is to the chest or abdominal area.

According to How Stuff Works, “The sting contains a sharp spine with serrated edges, or barbs, that face the body of the fish. There is a venom gland at the base of the spine and a membrane-like sheath that covers the entire sting mechanism.”

A stingray barb injury can be treated with something hot. "Anybody gets hit by one they should put something hot on it, a hot flannel or immerse the bit attacked in hot water, and that breaks down the protein in the toxin pretty quickly,” Dr. Malcolm Francis, principal scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, said, The New Zealand Herald reported.