Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. 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. Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said. Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter." First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity. He rode his image into a feature film, 2002's "The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course" and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction. "The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns. "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!'"September 4, 2006
CROCODILE HUNTER DEAD AT 44
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. 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. Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said. Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter." First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity. He rode his image into a feature film, 2002's "The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course" and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction. "The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns. "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!'"
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Ain that some shit, I always wondered how long it was going to be before something tragic like this happened. He was always doing shit he shouldn't have been doing but a whole through the heart? OUCH!
fugg, i was about to do a post on this. good up duje.
Ae duje
Good lookin out. We over here in Jamaica are reely takinabak by this one.
Jah Bless.
Ya know, at first I was like "Wow. That sucks. He seemed mad cool." Then I gots to thinkin. I beleive this is true karma for the molestering thousands if not millions of animals in their natural habitat who were just trying to get by.
I imagine it must be pretty tough being an animal, knowing that at any given moment a hyena could come and bite you in the dick. And now you got some loud-mouthed Aussie screaming 'croooiikieee!' and 'oy-oy-oy!' in your ear, while pointing out your genitals to a 5-person camera crew.
And later, while enjoying a round of Fosters, proclaiming how good of a 'shoot' it was today, and how they 'didn't intrude on the animal's habitat', a fucking lion is smelling the boom mike operator's B.O. and stops for a second look at your otherwise well-hidden den and eats you. Good riddance, Cheter the Animal Molester.
"Muthafuck Steve Irwin, Muthafuck Jack Hannah, Muthafuck Death Row. Now here comes my left blow...."
wow...Wow... Laidies and gentlemen; Mr. Compassion!
This guy was a jackweed. I just wish he got stung in his dick making it fell off. Then he had to live life as an Australian Tori Spelling impersonator.
Also, they do not drink fosters in Australia you bogan.
What a fantastic human being. I give him the 3 FOSTER can salute and two snaps and around the world.
Bullqueef....the man mollested collies.
hm...that's an interesting point....
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