BELIEVE IT OR NOT. A man claims he rode 450 miles on the back of a stingray to safety after his boat capsized three weeks ago, a radio station reported Wednesday. Radio Vanuatu said 18-year-old Lottie Stevens washed up Wednesday in New Caledonia. It said Stevens' boat capsized Jan. 15 while he and a friend were on a fishing trip off the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The friend died, and after four days drifting with the overturned boat, Stevens decided to try to swim to safety, Radio Vanuatu reported. Despite several sharks, a stingray came to Stevens' rescue and carried him on its back for 13 days and nights to New Caledonia, the radio said. The report could not be confirmed.