Steve Irwin’s tragic and untimely death after being pierced through the heart by a stingray (short-tail) in the water of Batt Reef, Australia, has been reportedly captured on video.
Mr Irwin died while filming for his documentary called “The Ocean’s Deadliest” was postponed due to the weather conditions, and he seized the opportunity to swim with the stingrays for a segment on his 8 year old daughter’s television show.
Stingrays however ironic it may sound at this point, are not considered among the deadliest creatures in the ocean. In the past decade there have been 17 fatalities recorded worldwide, caused by a stingray - as “swimming with the stingrays” catches on and proper precautions are not always taken.
The Wikipedia article on Stingrays, says they: “generally do not attack aggressively, or even actively defend themselves. When threatened, their primary reaction is to swim away. However, when they are attacked by predators or stepped on, the barbed stinger in their tail is mechanically whipped up.”
According to Ben Cropp, a marine documentary filmmaker who reviewed the footage of Mr Irwin’s death, the stingray felt threated by the proximity of Mr Irwin and his cameraman. Quoting Mr Cropp, the stingray “felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead.” … “It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It’s a defensive thing. It’s like being stabbed with a dirty dagger.”
This is believed to be the only human fatality caused by a stingray to have ever been captured on film, now in the hands of the Queensland Police.
January 12th, 2007 at 10:42 am
the “crikey” is still alive!!!!
C’ mon now…you know i and i know that someone who is worth more dead, and now idolized, whats one to do?
stay alive and watch your ratings and popularity fall through the roof?
Do you instead fake your death cash in on the insurance money, and now launch your daughter and wife onto the world stage and cash in o that CHEESE, movie deals Etc…
whats one to do?
After all a lot of people fake thier deaths,
just think about it, one, you get a whole lot of money, millions, two plastic surgery an island somewhere, and three you are now a fucken god! a worshiped image, and your family continues your legacy!
“Crikey” he did it again, but not for long!!!!
-ReBeL
January 24th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I don’t know… all I can say is it’s a theory more or less as credible as the ones on Elvis and Roswell, and they all have followers…