Crikey! Steve Irwin killed while on shoot

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    What are we Aussies going to do without the Crocodile Hunter??!!


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    Bottom of the ocean

    One of the best nature presenters .... gone.....
    After all the rummors about his death over the years, I guess it had to happen finallly.
    Rest in peace.
    We'll miss him.
    Actually, feel sorry for his kids really.


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    Very sad - feel very sorry for his small children.

    Last edited by JBest; 04-09-2006 at 04:42 PM.

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    I believe he had toned it down over the last few years...the stingray isn't a mean animal when compared with some of the other things he has messed with before. Just a freak accident...but a costly one.

    RIP


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    Quote Originally Posted by tx75070:
    How does a sting ray barb go through ones chest?

    I agree, that must have been one mighty ray as the barbs aren't that long on a stringray. Sounds like a bit of poetic licence. Doesn't change the fact that it is a terrible thing.

    I will never be able to watch "Wiggly Safari" again without feeling sad.

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    I'm not shocked. When you live on the edge, you fall off eventually. He most certainly lived, rather than just existing. At least he died doing something he loved.


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    ok, according to the UK times it was a strike 'to' the chest as opposed to 'through' the chest.

    But even so, as a keen scuba diver I had no idea this sort of thing could happen. In the leg followed by immense pain yes - but in the chest and then your dead. Totally unexpected and shocking.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pekkerhead:
    ok, according to the UK times it was a strike 'to' the chest as opposed to 'through' the chest.

    But even so, as a keen scuba diver I had no idea this sort of thing could happen. In the leg followed by immense pain yes - but in the chest and then your dead. Totally unexpected and shocking.
    I'm guessing that if he was scuba diving there was pressure inside the lungs + piercing by barb = huge depressurisation and coronary.

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    i just read another article which said he was filming bull stingrays whose barbs can be up to 20 cm long. I guess that would do a lot of damage wouldn't it?


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    I guess the video will be on youtube soon...