Rays are awesome. I always tell my student divers not to approach them, but to enjoy it if they decide to be buddies.

I love stingrays and nurse sharks! They're like little aqua puppies.

Edit: I remember when I was little, I always wanted to know if the aquarium we were going to had stingrays and nurse sharks (and sea urchins too, they always had sea urchins in the petting pools). They were by far my favorite part of the aquariums.

Yeah I went to an aquatic petting zoo like 25 years ago when I was a kid with my parents in Mexico, and how cute the nurse sharks and the rays were and how much they enjoyed being pet still sticks with me today.

And that was a hell of a lot of beers ago, pretty sure it’s a core memory at this point.

That's awesome! One of my most vivid early memories is petting rays at the Monterey Bay aquarium on a field trip in elementary school

I think you may have strayed from the designated viewing area XD

Thanks for elaborately clarifying

That will heavily depend on the surroundings, your body, and contact points.

Also, freshwater and saltwater eels approach it differently, with freshwater ones (the ones delivering those 600-800 volts) able to give out amperage of around 0,1A.

This may not seem like much, but it is actually enough to stun and paralyze a human, and this is exactly what we see here. If there's nobody to break the contact, the current will keep flowing for several more seconds, and then your heart will stop, with all the consequences it entails.

An eel can only generate so much power, so essentially the voltage will drop so that the power will be lower.

600V at 0,1A will just turn to, say, 100V at 0,6A if the resistance between two points will be 1667 Ohm.

To keep voltage at 600V (and subsequently deliver 0,36A) you need a power source that can deliver 3,6 times more power.

In that sense, amperage is super important. We should always consider capabilities of the power source, this is big part of electrical grid engineering.

No. It would not kill.