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Posted By: Pre98 Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 05:37 AM
Crikey!
Posted By: Kokopellian Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 06:06 AM
I knew it'd happen sooner or later. Didn't figure it'd be a Stingray though. Go figure. Well, he died doing what he loved at least.
Posted By: Loco4G63 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 06:30 AM
That is crazy! I was in total disbelief.

He died doing what he loved....but has a family that he left behind.
Posted By: Renee_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 06:38 AM
I am still in shock. I cannot believe it. As crazy as he was, I honestly didn't think he'd die from an animal attack of any kind. He's had SO many over the years.

God Bless Terri, Bindi, and Bob. This really sucks.
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 10:16 AM
Posted By: AliasJerkâ?¢ Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 12:43 PM
Originally posted by Loco4G63:
That is crazy! I was in total disbelief.

He died doing what he loved....but has a family that he left behind.




I know, its sad. I couldnt believe it either, and the way of death is just astounding, it almost sounds like its something that should be in a movie.
Posted By: LUCA_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 12:55 PM
That's sad.
As said previously, at least he died doing what he loved best.
Posted By: warmonger_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 12:57 PM
I'm sorry to hear this. He definitely pushed the edge but he was a great friend to wildlife and conservation. May he rest in peace.
Posted By: Buddy Palumbo Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 01:09 PM
Oh my god ... I can't believe it !!! What a freak accident . Only a couple people in the world have ever been killed by a stingray - what a shame it had to be him (not that I'd want to substitute anyone) . That barb could've hit him anywhere , and from the latest reports , it definately hit him right in the heart . A real shame - rest in peace , croc hunter .
Posted By: frenchblueC2_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 01:24 PM
ugh, I thought this was going to be some sort of lame youtube link.
So sad. I feel awful for his loving family.
Posted By: svt4stv Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 01:55 PM
interesting stingray info
according to that site, only one person has survived a barb-piercing to the heart.


i too always thought it would happen sooner or later, but i thought it'd be from a venomous snake.

R.I.P.
Posted By: GS474 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 02:39 PM


i grew up watching him on the tv this is sad indeed i kinda though of him as a superman in a way hell the way he handled deadly animals



rip Steve Irwin
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 02:44 PM
Originally posted by AliasJerkâ?¢:
it almost sounds like its something that should be in a movie.




He was actually filming a documentary and they think that his cameraman may have startled the ray. I hear that his 8 year old daughter was with him. I remember when he was on Fox & Friends and was wrestling a toy alligator.
Posted By: GS474 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 03:16 PM
damn
Steve Irwin Coverage on Youtube from australian television

here
Posted By: Renee_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 08:58 PM
CNN is re-airing a 2004 interview with Larry King that Steve did. It will be on tonight, 9pm EST.
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 10:11 PM
Animal Planet is running a special on his life now in place of the Crock Hunter.
Posted By: Geddup Noise Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 10:11 PM
Sad, yes. But com'on, you can't say that it took any of us by surprise. I mean the man is out there putting his life on the line for our entertainment and his own everyday. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

But yeah. Poor guy.
Posted By: getsum111 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 10:34 PM
Agreed, but from what I hear, he wasn't handling the ray, just swimming above it. It is sad. Bye Steve.
Posted By: Renee_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/04/06 10:47 PM
Originally posted by Geddup Noise:
Sad, yes. But com'on, you can't say that it took any of us by surprise. I mean the man is out there putting his life on the line for our entertainment and his own everyday. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

But yeah. Poor guy.




well, I don't think it was a surprise that he died from an attack of some sorts by an animal, but that it was a stingray mainly, and that he wasn't even touching the thing. It got spooked by something else and tragically hit Stevo in the heart with that stinger. I think most of us can agree we thought it would most likely have been a snake or croc.

The shock if it was just like the shock of hearing Princess Diana died in that car accident. You know it's true but you are numb and don't want to believe it. Sucks big time.
Posted By: GS474 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 01:38 AM
Originally posted by Renee:
Originally posted by Geddup Noise:
Sad, yes. But com'on, you can't say that it took any of us by surprise. I mean the man is out there putting his life on the line for our entertainment and his own everyday. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

But yeah. Poor guy.




well, I don't think it was a surprise that he died from an attack of some sorts by an animal, but that it was a stingray mainly, and that he wasn't even touching the thing. It got spooked by something else and tragically hit Stevo in the heart with that stinger. I think most of us can agree we thought it would most likely have been a snake or croc.

The shock if it was just like the shock of hearing Princess Diana died in that car accident. You know it's true but you are numb and don't want to believe it. Sucks big time.




you said it best
Posted By: SalKhan_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 03:49 AM
From another forum:

Posted By: Rayn Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 04:02 AM
It's messed up that he passed...
Posted By: jtour Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 04:23 PM
RIP....he was so good at his job.
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 04:35 PM
Stingrays are friendly, if they are accustomed to people.
Like this one on my back in the Caymans.





...or these swimming around my feet.
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 04:54 PM
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.

Posted By: joe_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:10 PM
"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...
Posted By: svt4stv Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:19 PM
meh, i think Jeff Corwin is more entertaining anyways

but it is a tragedy nonetheless. he was obviously loved by so many.
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:26 PM
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!"
Posted By: JaTo_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:38 PM
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.
Posted By: Swazo Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:41 PM
This really does suck He seemed so down to earth and like a very nice guy. RIP
Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:45 PM
Originally posted by JaTo:
But piss them off or scare them and they WILL stick you;




Right. I suspect that it wasn't Steve, but the cameraman that startled it.
Posted By: RogerB_dup1 Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 05:58 PM
Originally posted by TexasRealtor:
Originally posted by JaTo:
But piss them off or scare them and they WILL stick you;




Right. I suspect that it wasn't Steve, but the cameraman that startled it.




Tough to say.

Key words from that article are "freak accident."

My first thought when I heard this was, "Welp, he had it coming, didn't he?"

But the more I find out, the less I think so.

Yeah, he had a habit of getting too close or spurring a reaction for entertainment value.

But it sounds like this was different. The tape should be strong evidence one way or the other.

Or, maybe there's some obvious rule of thumb, like "Don't swim over top a stingray in close proximity..." I don't know.



Posted By: TexasRealtor Re: Steve Irwin Dead - 09/05/06 06:13 PM
Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by TexasRealtor:
Originally posted by JaTo:
But piss them off or scare them and they WILL stick you;




Right. I suspect that it wasn't Steve, but the cameraman that startled it.




Tough to say.

Key words from that article are "freak accident."

My first thought when I heard this was, "Welp, he had it coming, didn't he?"

But the more I find out, the less I think so.

Yeah, he had a habit of getting too close or spurring a reaction for entertainment value.

But it sounds like this was different. The tape should be strong evidence one way or the other.

Or, maybe there's some obvious rule of thumb, like "Don't swim over top a stingray in close proximity..." I don't know.







If you watch him around animals, he always relys on his quick reflexs. You don't have those underwater.
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