The Crocodile Hunter killed by Stingray

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

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

Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal.

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.