Steve Irwin, Croc Hunter

Aussie_Dreamer · Post by **Aussie_Dreamer** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:54 am

Aussie icon Steve Irwin passed away late Monday morning while filming a documentary in Queensland. A stingray barb pierced his heart and he was rushed to hospital, but pronounced DOA.

While not loved by all, he will certainly be remembered by all, as websites and radio shows have been flooded by respondents, and flowers streaming in to the Australian Zoo where the Croc Hunter made his home.

He was 44 when he died, and one of a kind.

Nicki

Post by **ISLANDGIRL5** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:01 am

I heard about this. It's sad!

KarenEvans · Post by **KarenEvans** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:28 am

I was shocked and saddened to hear of his death.
The world's lost a great conservationist in Steve Irwin.

killjoy · Post by **killjoy** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:33 am

Sad but to be honest I always thought something like this was going to happen

But I had always thought it would be some big croc that did it,not a stingray.

cookiely · Post by **cookiely** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:52 am

Oh man that's sad.

But to be honest I also thought that this was going to happen sooner or later.

And I didn't know that stingrays are that dangerous.

begonia9508 · Post by **begonia9508** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:55 am

Yeah agreeing with Killjoy!
I saw him once with crocodiles and was horrified what he did with it!

EVE

KarenEvans · Post by **KarenEvans** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:58 am

cookiely wrote: And I didn't know that stingrays are that dangerous.

They are usually docile according to experts but will attack if they feel threatened.Steve was supposedly swimming above the ray when he got stung.

Fehr'sBear · Post by **Fehr'sBear** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:59 pm

Yeah, stingrays aren't fatal if you get hit by their barb somewhere like in the leg, but they are slightly poisonous, and steve got the barb right through his chest. doctors think it punctured his heart, so it really was a one time thing freak accident. it's really sad though.

LovinGuerin2Much · Post by **LovinGuerin2Much** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:28 pm

For some reason, at least for me I felt really, really sad and shocked, you see these famous people on TV all the time and it feels like you know them.

He just seemed like such a nice guy, and funny too.

I cant imagine what his wife and family must be feeling, it appeared that they were all very close.

This was just on AOL news, thought I'd share..

Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

"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 at the time.

Lady_vixen · Post by **Lady_vixen** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:40 pm

This is so sad for animal lovers like me. He took us places that we would have never seen and came in contact with animals some of us have never heard of. I feel so sad for his wife and kids. The hurt the must feel. My thoughts go out to them. All I can say is that its a sad thing that he passed but he died doing what he loved.