The Crocodile Hunter killed by Stingray

thatmariolover · 09-05-2006, 06:38 PM

I guess I just find it odd how bothered I am by his death. I mean, there have been a lot of other people that have died that I know of, but none of them really bothered me. I never really watched him on TV very often (two or three times ever), and yet his death is just disturbing to me. A freak accident; he could have been lacerated or stabbed anywhere else on his body (legs are most common for Stingray attacks), but he was stabbed through the heart. And the fact that he was videotaped by collegues while it happened - that just makes it even more exceptionally disturbing to me.

At any rate, not a huge impact on my life or anything; but I still feel inexplicably bothered by how he died.

Neo · 09-05-2006, 11:58 PM

The debate now is whether they're going to air the footage. Supposedly Steve told them that even if things turned out badly that he wanted people to see it.

It'll probably end up on youtube before TV.

GameMaster · 09-06-2006, 12:01 AM

He removed the barb and then died. I'm not going to lie, I want to see the footage.

Dyne · 09-06-2006, 12:57 AM

I knew it would get released, officially or not.

Crash · 09-06-2006, 11:11 AM

I dont think it will be released. His best friend who was there swore on it.

But you never know, the cops might leak it for $$

Bube · 09-06-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

He removed the barb and then died. I'm not going to lie, I want to see the footage.

I didn't know that.. If he hadn't removed it, he might not have died..

Sad, really..

Jason1 · 09-06-2006, 02:39 PM

I wouldnt mind seeing the footage, only because you KNOW he was screwing around with that Stingray. Probably saying something along the lines of "crickey, she really hates when I do this!"

he then continues to do said thing to stingray, and stingray kills him.

Typhoid · 09-06-2006, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason1

I wouldnt mind seeing the footage, only because you KNOW he was screwing around with that Stingray. Probably saying something along the lines of "crickey, she really hates when I do this!"

he then continues to do said thing to stingray, and stingray kills him.

Actually it's more likely that he was swimming near the bottom, and since most stingrays stay hidden under the sand, he couldnt have seen it.

And when they feel threatened, they just flick their tails up.

Spasmolytic · 09-06-2006, 03:58 PM

Bah, we've been gifted with the age of information... I mean, just look at Wikipedia; yet many of you fail to use it.

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... marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead."

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Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal.

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As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded due to stingrays, and the attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever captured on film.