What are we Aussies going to do without the Crocodile Hunter??!!
What are we Aussies going to do without the Crocodile Hunter??!!
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.
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
Originally Posted by tx75070:
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.
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.
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.Originally Posted by Pekkerhead:
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?