R.I.P. Steve Irwin

[Pedsdude]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 732439.htm

[killzone88]

Crap. He was awesome aswell My condolences to Steve. R.I.P

[Koekie]

Danger in his profession.
His programs were fun to watch because of his enthusiasm.
R.I.P. Steve

[Drofder2004]

Indeed, but tbh, he was stupid. He knew the risks, and im afraid it was bound to happen soon (well, at least it wasnt a poisonous snake our bleeding to death at the hands of a crocodile).

Of all the things he could've got killed by, it was a stingray, a creature which is known to flee from danger not stand up and fight. I do not feel sorry for him, just his family.

And the moral to this story is...

DO NOT FUCK WITH NATURE.

R.I.P Steve Irwin

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

God this sucks.

I love to watch Animal Planet and Discovery Channel but Crocodile Hunter was one of my favourite programs. It's a great guy with lots of respect for nature. But just like Drofder said, looking at the risks of his job he would never get old.

[Lisa]

RIP Mr. Irwin

Yes his profession was extremely dangerous but he loved it so much as did the whole world."Crikey"!!

RIP Mr. Irwin

[Nightmare]

crikey that sting ray jus' shocked my heart out mate!

RIP good show

[creator]

His wife is always joins him when he does something but this time without her.. and this happends,
wonder if his wife stop the stuff they were doing ( crocodiles and snakes and so, )
R.I.P. Steve Irwin

[Drofder2004]

crikey that sting ray jus' shocked my heart out mate!

RIP good show

No need for disrepect tbh, the guy is a legend to what he did.

And just for the record, he died of cardiac arrest after his heart was punctured by the stingray, not any sting/shock.

Heres a pic of a stingrays barb for any one interested.

[creator]

the one that attacked him was longer, but yes looks like it

[Drofder2004]

the one that attacked him was longer, but yes looks like it

May I ask how you know this. Any larger and I am sure it would've come out his back O_O

[creator]

they said the fish was around 2.5, 3 meters long

[Pedsdude]

they said the fish was around 2.5, 3 meters long

And that automatically means that the barb is the same length?

I agree about Creator's comment, too far.

[Pedsdude]

10 inches long.

-- Stingrays are strange-looking but normally shy creatures whose defenses include poisonous, serrated barbs in their tails.

At least 35 species of stingrays swim in the tropical waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where television personality Steve Irwin died Monday when he was stabbed in the heart by a ray's barb.

Experts called it a freak occurrence.

They said the triangular-shaped rays are usually unobtrusive, gliding through the water, rummaging on the sea bottom for food or burrowing into the sand. But when stepped on or otherwise frightened, they deploy spines up to 10 inches long with breadknife-like serrations as a defense mechanism.

"If it's spooked by someone stepping on it or swimming too closely over it, frightening it, the tail raises involuntarily," said Victoria Brims, a marine life expert at OceanWorld, an aquarium in Sydney, Australia.

The spines emit toxins that can kill many small creatures and that cause excruciating pain in humans. Few people die from the poison, but the spines can badly tear flesh and the wounds are prone to infections, including tetanus.

Simon Pierce of Queensland University's School of Biological Sciences said there were no accurate records of stingray deaths, but estimated there had been about 30 worldwide in recent years.

Witnesses said Irwin was struck directly in the heart.

"It was extraordinarily bad luck," said Shaun Collin, a University of Queensland marine neuroscientist. "It's not easy to get spined by a stingray, and to be killed by one is very rare."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00414.html

[-venom-]

i saw it on this morning news


ill miss you steve irwin