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OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
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09-04-2006, 07:05 AM
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
Well, I guess he died as he lived.
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
I just saw that reported, too. Stingray barb right in the chest. Awful.
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
Damn, That Sucks He was COOL
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
OMFG! I saw this at 4 last night and had to make sure it was real. Of all the things he came into contact with- a damned stingray?!
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- Normally placid stingrays can deliver horrific, agonizing injuries, even though fatal attacks are almost unheard of, marine experts said on Monday after the death of Australia's "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.
Irwin, the bubbly, khaki-clad naturalist whose documentaries were watched by hundreds of millions around the world, died after he was struck in the chest by a stingray barb while he was diving off Australia's northeast coast on Monday.
Irwin's manager John Stainton said Irwin was swimming over the stingray during filming for a documentary when he was struck in the chest, the barb most likely piercing his heart.
Dr. Bryan Fry, deputy director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne, said stingray venom was "extraordinarily painful."
"If he was conscious he would have been in agony," Fry told Reuters.
Fry said stingray venom was a defensive weapon similar to that in stonefish but was not lethal. Serrated barbs on the stingray's tail would have delivered the fatal injury, he said.
"It's not the going in, it's the coming out," Fry said.
"They have these deep serrations which tear and render the flesh as it comes out," he said.
The barbs on stingray's tails can measure up to 20 centimeters.
Clinical toxinologist Dr. Geoff Isbister said little is known about stingray venom but agreed the physical trauma associated with the wound would have killed Irwin.
"What happened to Steve Irwin is like being stabbed in the heart," Isbister said.
Injuries caused by stingrays are relatively common but fatalities are extremely rare, with experts saying there are only one or two known cases in recorded Australian history.
An Aboriginal boy died several years ago, while the previous record death was in Melbourne in 1945.
"The majority of stingray injuries in Australia result from people stepping on them in shallow water and getting a stingray barb in the ankle," Isbister said.
Marine ecologist Sean Connell said stingrays, which feed on small animals on the sea floor, are related to sharks and use their long, barbed tails to protect themselves from predators, such as sharks and killer whales.
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09-04-2006, 04:36 PM
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
He screwed around with all of those dangerous animals and he gets by a usually docile stingray. I guess he ran out of pixie dust.
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09-04-2006, 05:06 PM
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Sux for his family, but he did put himself in harm's way.
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
Australia's `Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin killed by stingray's barb
By BRIAN CASSEY (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
September 04, 2006 10:20 AM EDT
CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin died doing what he loved best, getting too close to one of the dangerous animals he dedicated his life to protecting in an irrepressible style that shot him to global fame as television's "Crocodile Hunter."
Irwin's heart was pierced by the serrated, poisonous spine of a stingray as he swam with the fish Monday while shooting a new television show on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, his manager and producer John Stainton said. He was 44.
News of Irwin's death reverberated around the world, triggering surprise despite his fame as a man who regularly leaped on the back of huge crocodiles and grabbed deadly snakes by the tail.
"I am shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, untimely and freakish death," Prime Minister John Howard said. "It's a huge loss to Australia."
International conservationists said all the world would feel the loss of Irwin, who turned a childhood love of snakes and lizards into a message of wildlife preservation that reached a television audience that reportedly exceeded 200 million.
In high-energy programs from Africa, the Americas and Asia, but especially his beloved Australia, Irwin - dressed always in khaki shorts, shirt and heavy boots - crept up on lions, chased and was chased by komodo dragons, and went eye-to-eye with poisonous snakes.
Often, his trademark big finish was to hunt down one of the huge saltwater crocodiles that inhabit the rivers and beaches of the Outback in Australia's tropical north, leap onto its back, grabbing its jaws with his bare hands, then tying the animal's mouth with rope.
He was a committed conservationist, running a wildlife park for crocodiles and other Australian fauna, including kangaroos, koalas and possums, and using some of his television wealth to buy tracts of land for use as natural habitat.
Irwin was in the water at Batt Reef, off the resort town of Port Douglas about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Cairns, shooting a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close a stingray, Stainton told reporters.
"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, Croc One, at the time.
Crew members administered CPR and rushed to rendezvous with a rescue helicopter that flew to nearby Low Isle, but Irwin was pronounced dead when the paramedics arrived, Stainton said.
"The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton said. "He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, 'Crocs Rule!'"
Irwin was born Feb. 22, 1962, in the southern city of Melbourne to a plumber father and a nurse mother, who decided a few years later to chase a shared dream of becoming involved in animal preservation.
They moved to the Sunshine Coast in tropical Queensland state and opened a reptile and wildlife preserve at Beerwah in 1970, Irwin said in a recent interview. Irwin was in his element.
He was given a snake for his sixth birthday and regularly went on capturing excursions with his father in the bushland around the park. He was catching crocodiles by age nine, and in his 20s worked for the Queensland state government as a trapper who removed problematic crocodiles from populated areas.
Irwin's father, Bob, described his son as having an innate affinity with animals at an early age, a sense Irwin later described as "a gift."
His family said there was never a downtime to his effusive personality, characterized by his broad Australian twang, mile-a-minute delivery and big arm gestures. "Crikey!" was his catch phrase, repeated whenever there was a close shave - or just about any other event - during his programs.
In 1991, Irwin took over the park, Australia Zoo, when his parents retired and began building a reputation as a showman during daily crocodile feeding shows.
He met and married Terri Raines, from Eugene, Oregon, who came to the park as a tourist, that year. They invited a television crew to join them on their camping honeymoon on Australia's far northern tip.
The resulting show became the first "Crocodile Hunter," was picked up by the Discovery Channel the following year, and the resulting series became an international hit.
Irwin was more famous in the United States than at home, where he typified a knockabout, rascally character that Australians call a larrikin and which many people worried painted a stereotypical picture of Australians as brash and uncouth.
Irwin loved Australia and its people, though, describing it as the greatest land on Earth.
Irwin said he learned about animals at his parent's side rather than in schools, but his knowledge was respected widely.
"He was probably one of the most knowledgeable reptile people in the entire world," Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo and Aquarium, said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday.
By 2002 he had starred in a movie - Australia Zoo - had became a major attraction, and the Australian government had enlisted him as the star of international tourist campaigns.
When U.S. President George W. Bush visited Australia in 2003, Irwin was among the guests hand-picked by Howard to attend a ceremonial barbecue - and he turned up in his khakis.
The public image was dented in 2004 when Irwin triggered an uproar by holding his month-old son in one arm while feeding large crocodiles inside a zoo pen. Irwin claimed at the time there was no danger to his son, and authorities declined to charge Irwin with violating safety regulations.
Later that year, he was accused of getting too close to penguins, a seal and humpback whales in Antarctica while making a documentary. An Australian Environment Department investigation recommended no action be taken against him.
At Australia Zoo in Beerwah, flowers and cards were dropped at the entrance on Monday as news of Irwin's death spread.
"Steve, from all God's creatures, thank you. Rest in peace," was written on a card with a bouquet of native flowers.
Irwin is survived by his wife Terri, daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
I feel bad for his family too. But he lived doing what he loved. My diving friend said he should have been playing with a Mante ray (sp?) not a Sting ray. THey don't have poison barbs. But then, what's the fun/challenge in that?
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
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He screwed around with all of those dangerous animals and he gets by a usually docile stingray. I guess he ran out of pixie dust.
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
I am suprised he had not taken himself out a long time ago. OI!!!!!!
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
I like the guy, but heck...natural selection at its finest....
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
Steve Irwin lived a awesome life style, and he died doing what he loved to do, being with animals .
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09-05-2006, 01:28 AM
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
A while back some idiot decided to release his too large pet alligator at a pond in a park near me. When many so called alligator experts (including a displaced New Orleaner) failed to catch the alligator, Steve Irwin promised to come and catch the alligator. So sad...
Btw, prob a year later, the pond is still closed, and the alligator is still loose.
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09-05-2006, 02:52 AM
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Re: OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!
Sorry to hear the news.
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