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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Sekhmet on September 04, 2006, 10:55:48 AM
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Television reptile hunter Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray while filming a nature documentary off Queensland, Australia.
According to a report from Australia's The Daily Telegraph, Irwin was struck by the barb of a stingray while swimming off the Low Isles, near Port Douglas, Queensland.
An emergency air ambulance flew to Batt Reef at 11am and paramedics arrived at the scene by boat. The venomous barb of the ray is said to have entered the left side of his chest. Irwin was pronounced dead at the scene.
Wildlife film maker David Ireland told The Daily Telegraph: "Working with (wild animals) the way the way we do things can go very wrong. Rays are very dangerous. They have one or two barbs in the tails which are not only coated in toxic material but are also like a bayonet, like a bayonet on a rifle. If it hits any vital organs it's as deadly as a bayonet."
Dr Ed O'Loughlin was on the Emergency Management Queensland Helicopter which was called to the incident.
He told the paper: "It would be highly unusual for a stingray to cause this type of injury. 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."
Irwin, who was 44, rose to fame on the television series "The Crocodile Hunter". He was heavily involved in conservation and worked for the Steve Irwin Conservation Foundation, and the International Crocodile Rescue.
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that guy was a dude...
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He was cool, stupid ray!
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Mental, he always pushed the limits. its amazing he lasted this long! Ouch tho 20cm stingger jab to the heart.
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Didn't he die like 2 times before though lol
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The guy should be remembered as a saviour of the evironment.
Through comedy and excentricity he brought people back to watching programs about nature and animals.
He was off the wall and altogether a bit wierd. None the less he got people interested in nature again.
R.I.P Steve :cry:
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The guy should be remebered as a saviour of the evironment.
Well said...
Im quite gutted about it...I loved his programmes
R.I.P
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RIP steve.
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I heard about this too. Sucks for his wife, Terri, and two kids. Unlucky way to go, too. I can't think of anyone else who's died from that kinda wound from a ray.
Steve was just as intense in real life as he was on TV. Nice guy though. I visited his zoo and had a friend who worked with him for a while.
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The world can ill afford to lose people like Steve. He was certainly a one off and I feel for his family.
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Unfortunately, steve irwin was regarded by too many people as "that nutter that poke's reptiles with a stick", he was far more than this. He was a man who tirelessly promoted wildlife worldwide in an attempt to get people to value even the less pretty/more dangerous animals, he used a large amount of his own money to start setting up an australian national park which could be a natural have for these animals, he contributed a great many scientific papers to the zoological community etc. The list is pretty much endless. I've been a huge steve fan for years and can only thank him for being one of the reasons that I got involved in herpetology (albeit at an amateur level).
Unfortunately, steve had a great many detractors, there were many allegations made and rumours passed about by his competitors (he was alleged to have refrigerated snakes to slow them down and make them easier to handle - not only would this not actually work very well but there was never any physical evidence of this produced, I wonder why?! :roll: ), the simple truth about him was this: He had been handling reptiles since he was old enough to walk and was immensely good at it, he was immensely knowledgable and passionate about animals and he had huge amounts of charisma, this all combined together to produce the ultimate wildlife presenter. Others have become very jealous of this over the years.
RIP Steve, he'll be sorely missed.
(http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/6602/picsteveirwingr7.jpg)
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The world can ill afford to lose people like Steve. He was certainly a one off and I feel for his family.
I wholeheartedly agree. But I have to say I always felt uneasy with the up close and personal way they shot things for the show. It's a tragic loss.
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Kind of odd to get stung like that, really strange. Sad... very sad....
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Kind of odd to get stung like that, really strange. Sad... very sad....
Unless I'm mistaken stingray injuries are usually a result of them being stepped on, the stinger is just behind the body in the first part of the tail. I believe they sting as a reflex (not sure). So he would've been on above it somehow.
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I would think they usually sting on the lower part of the body( not 100% sure). We will find out the cir####!!ances.............
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Kind of odd to get stung like that, really strange. Sad... very sad....
Unless I'm mistaken stingray injuries are usually a result of them being stepped on, the stinger is just behind the body in the first part of the tail. I believe they sting as a reflex (not sure). So he would've been on above it somehow.
I think he got too close to it or something.
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" Swimming on top of the Stingray when the barb went into his chest " Just read on MSN.
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Crikey!
Lets not get ourselves all depressed about this - we should remember him the way he would want to be remembered, and maybe have renewed interest in wildlife :drink:
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Whilst I am genuinely upset about mr. Irwin's passing, I just found this which made me chuckle: http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6914/demiseofirwinnq0.gif
*Warning, contains rude words and everything!*
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Amusing but bad spelling.
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ya can't have everything!
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It feels like using one of your own. I rang my mate Ben from Sydney and had a good chat about it this afternoon. There were conflicting reports.
He said, they had finished filming and he was in the water with his daughter. He put himself between his young daughter and the Ray. It had been said that the ray was behaving in an agitated manner and lashed out with it's tail and the barb penetrated his heart. We were unsure if this is factual. What a Dad this man must have been!
My thoughts echo yours Mr 38th. We must have more Steve Irwins. People with a pair and know how to get the messages across to the f*ckwits of this planet and the corporate money making machines who refuse to be told your in this with the rest of us. Same thing then.
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I was very shocked when I heard this on the news this morning - a great loss, loved watching his shows. Not only did he make this stuff interesting to the masses, he was funny with it and seemed to really care for the animals (like when he'd capture snakes on the road and relocate them in a safer place).
RIP mate :(
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Didnt agree with him feeding crocodiles with his baby in his arm. Thats almost as bad as MJ waving his baby around out that window!!!
Great loss to the wildlife community though...
Apparantly stingray attacks are pretty rare? unlucky.. guy like Irwin it was a chance it was going to happen sooner or later,he was bound to get attacked... just like the guy who did alot for saving the grizzly bears in america until one ate him... at the end of the day they are WILD animals and might not take kindly to being messed about with by us :(
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/chrisola/Irwin.jpg)
RIP
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He brought me up!
Croc Files, Crocodile Hunter, oh God, Steve, I miss you!
Apparently the formation that the camera man and Steve were in threatened the animal, it still is a bit unclear as to what happened.
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It's a sad loss.
But there's a lesson to be learned: Don't f*** with wild animals.
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^ I'll second that. Peoples dogs are bad enough!
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Didnt agree with him feeding crocodiles with his baby in his arm. Thats almost as bad as MJ waving his baby around out that window!!!
It was nothing like it looked on the TV though. The media beat-up of it was pathetic.
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Didnt agree with him feeding crocodiles with his baby in his arm. Thats almost as bad as MJ waving his baby around out that window!!!
It was nothing like it looked on the TV though. The media beat-up of it was pathetic.
I bet! News is good business.
Remember the Concord disaster? A racing motorcycle mechanic friend of a photographer I know caught that out of a plane window taxing on the run way. The photos made £125000 in 24 hours.
Blanket news coverage is ruthless in it's pursuit of badness in the world.
The BBC just nick it of everyone else these days. I mean they had 500 people on their world cup mission. Who pays for all that? We do. They can't afford small stuff so they plagiarise it from every other vulture and hope for the best.
Today is the first day forward now Bliar has finally given up the ghost.
Let the madness begin.
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real shame, i mean it's sad but is there any otherway he would have wanted to die? I don't think the man would have wanted to die of old age.
Don't really think he feared animals, he had far too much respect for them to be bitter about that im pretty sure he'd have just said "crikey" when he got into heaven not pissed and moaned about it.
RIP Steve xx
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That croc of his named Agro must be really p!ssed. He wanted to kill Steve more than anything else.