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It's messed up that he passed...
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RIP....he was so good at his job. 
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Stingrays are friendly, if they are accustomed to people.
Like this one on my back in the Caymans.
...or these swimming around my feet. 
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Irwin pulled barb out of chest before death By Paul Tait
2 hours, 41 minutes ago
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fatally injured "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin pulled a stingray's serrated barb from his chest before he lost consciousness and died, his manager said on Tuesday as fans worldwide mourned the exuberant naturalist.
Hundreds of fans placed flowers outside his Australia Zoo in Queensland state and wrote messages on khaki shirts, part of his trademark uniform, as Irwin's body was flown home after Monday's freak diving accident off Australia's northeast coast.
Officials offered Irwin's grieving family a state funeral while news of his death on the Great Barrier Reef clogged Internet news sites and ground some Web sites to a halt.
Police have been handed footage taken as Irwin, 44, filmed what was to be his last documentary. It shows him swimming above a stingray when it lashed out and speared him in the heart with its barbed tail, manager John Stainton told reporters.
"He pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," he said.
"The cameraman had to shut down. It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die ... it's terrible," Stainton said.
Police said it appeared Irwin was just watching the ray.
"There is no evidence that Mr Irwin was intimidating or threatening the stingray," Queensland police spokesman Mike Keating told reporters.
Marine experts say stingrays can deliver horrific, agonizing injuries from the toxin-laden barbs, which can measure up to 20 cm (8 in) in length and cause injuries like a knife or bayonet.
"It's not the going in that causes the damage, it's the coming out where those deep serrations kind of pull on the flesh, and you end up with a very jagged tear which is quite a pronounced injury," said Dr Bryan Fry, deputy director of the Australian Venom Research Unit.
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"There is no evidence that Mr Irwin was intimidating or threatening the stingray,"
I have yet to see him on tape where he doesn't taunt or try to pick up a wild animal. He was probably trying to ride it. I always thought there was a few shrimp missing from the bar-bee with that guy. Incredible that he lived for so long...
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meh, i think Jeff Corwin is more entertaining anyways  but it is a tragedy nonetheless. he was obviously loved by so many. 
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I remember one show where a snake (Cobra maybe?) got him on the hand. He just said "He got me, got me on the hand. Lets' go to the hospital, now!"
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Originally posted by TexasRealtor:
Stingrays are friendly, if they are accustomed to people.
Like this one on my back in the Caymans...
But piss them off or scare them and they WILL stick you; I used to skin-dive the flats in the FL Keys quite a bit and since rays like to bury themselves in the sand, it's almost impossible to know if you are near one until it takes off or you step on it. I've run into plenty of rays (mostly small ones no bigger than garbage-can lid sized, but a few "big" ones here and there) and I never found one that was innately aggressive over a decade and a half of diving and ocean kayaking in the Keys. The only one I can recall that I manged to piss off was a rather large one that me and two others kept chasing down via kayaks off of Bahia Honda. We did manage to circle it and it started whipping it's tail above the water-line at that point, which had us beating one Hell of a quick exit away from the sucker...
Him and his crew must have cornered it or he must have accidentally stepped on it or grabbed it somehow. I can't count the number of times I heard the typical tourist "scare" story of someone in the shallows crawling around and putting their hands on something squishy and then getting spiked in the chest or leg.
Sad, but not entirely unexpected if he was behaving like he normally did with crocs and other animals. Tragic, regardless of the circumstances, though.
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This really does suck He seemed so down to earth and like a very nice guy. RIP
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