Whyy?!!

Iqloo · Post by **Iqloo** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:01 am

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 52,00.html

Alphacenta · Post by **Alphacenta** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:01 am

noooooo!!!! So silly! WTB him back

And I'm sorry for the widow and the two kids too.. loosing their father when they're 2 and 8 years old

caveman · Post by **caveman** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:59 am

omg....what a shock...i feel for his wife and 2 kids

Mortus · Post by **Mortus** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:37 pm

Not that he could have been oblivious of the dangers of playing with theese kind of animals...

Kyttn · Post by **Kyttn** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:15 pm

It was a freak accident though, even considering the "work" he does. Appartently he was swimming above a sting-ray that got freaked and swung its tail at him. He caught the barb (which is poisonous) in the chest. Chest wound, poison and being underwater is a very bad combination.

Have to feel for the wife and kids though, noone should have to face that sort of loss.

Hexy · Post by **Hexy** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:16 pm

I really liked this guys shows..and the children are sooo young

What an incredible loss for all..

Alphacenta · Post by **Alphacenta** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:05 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin

Death
See Wikinews article:
Crocodile Hunter's Steve Irwin dies at 44

Shortly after 11:00 a.m. AEST (01:00 UTC) on 4 September 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, to be called The Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting,[38] when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the animals. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.

The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police.[39] After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger by automatically flexing the serrated barb on its tail (which can measure up to 25cm in length) in an upward motion.

Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." The stinging of Irwin by the bull ray was "a one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Time magazine. "I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that to me."[40]

Some reports have claimed that immediately after being stabbed, Irwin pulled the barb out before losing consciousness a short time later. Irwin's colleague John Stainton originally confirmed this account,[41][42] but he later denied it in an interview on CNN.[43] It is thought, in the absence of a coroner's report, that a combination of the toxins and the puncture wound from the barb caused Irwin to die of cardiac arrest, with most damage being inflicted by tears to arteries or other main blood vessels.[44][45] It is also possible that he died quickly as a result of a punctured aorta.[46] Until the coroner's report is released, however, the precise cause of Irwin's death remains conjecture.

Crew members aboard his boat called the emergency services in the nearest city of Cairns and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby the Low Islets to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later.[38] According to Dr. Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, "it became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries. . . . He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing."[47]

Irwin's body was flown to a morgue in Cairns. His wife, Terri Irwin, was on a walking tour in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania at the time, and returned via a private plane from Devonport to the Sunshine Coast with their two children.[38]

As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded due to stingrays,[48] [49] and the attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever captured on film.[50]

Recent information has surfaced in which the footage of Steve Irwin's death may be released and broadcast on television. [51] However the opposite has also been stated. Irwin's friend and manager John Stainton said to CNN's Larry King "[The tape] should be destroyed". [52]

layforet · Post by **layforet** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:30 pm

Kyttn wrote:It was a freak accident though, even considering the "work" he does. Appartently he was swimming above a sting-ray that got freaked and swung its tail at him. He caught the barb (which is poisonous) in the chest. Chest wound, poison and being underwater is a very bad combination.

Have to feel for the wife and kids though, noone should have to face that sort of loss.

actually, just to clarify, the poison in the barb isnt fatal, yes it hurts like heck, but not life threatening. what killed him was the fact he was stabbed in the chest with the barb and it punctured his heart. this may not have been fatal if he had been in a urban area. the fact that this happened out in the ocean along a reef somewhere was what ultimately killed him.

Doom_Eater · Post by **Doom_Eater** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:52 pm

We could expect it ofcourse... strangest is that he didnt die of a crocodile :/

Xaitan · Post by **Xaitan** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:26 pm

Doom_Eater wrote:We could expect it ofcourse... strangest is that he didnt die of a crocodile :/

Yeah lol, nor did he lose any limbs to a croc.

Even though the guy did come across like an idiot, you gotta admit he knew what he was doing. He gave the world a better understanding about animals.

Xai

Doom_Eater · Post by **Doom_Eater** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:26 pm

Xaitan wrote:Even though the guy did come across like an idiot, you gotta admit he knew what he was doing. He gave the world a better understanding about animals.

You are right about that