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Article: Stingray City: Researchers conduct study at popular Cayman sites.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 26, 2003
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Byline: Susan Cocking
GEORGETOWN, Grand Cayman Island _ Breath held and lying on the smooth sand bottom, Jessica Harvey holds a large Southern stingray over her head. The ray appears neither nervous nor aggressive. It doesn't try to sting the 13-year-old, nor use its powerful sucking jaws to inflict a hickey.
After a few seconds, it swims away, and she lets it go. After all, there are hundreds of others milling around for her and others to play with.
Jessica is the daughter of world-famous marine artist Guy Harvey, whose research institute, based at Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center in Dania Beach, has just completed one of ...