Swimming with the Allis

I got so caught up in doing my stuff that i totally forgot to create a post for the late Steve Irwin (1962-2006).

I still remember watching this crocodile hunter on TV, and hearing comments about him being mad and fearless for doing the things he do.


Stingray kills croc hunter Steve Irwin

SYDNEY: Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim as TV's khaki-clad "Crocodile Hunter", was killed by a stingray barb through the heart while filming a new documentary on Monday.
Irwin, 44, tangled with some of the world's most dangerous animals but he died in an extremely rare attack by a normally placid sea creature while he was diving on a reef off Port Douglas in northern Queensland.
"He came over the top of a stingray and the stingray's barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart," Irwin's shocked manager John Stainton told reporters in Cairns, south of Port Douglas.
A helicopter rushed paramedics to nearby Low Isles where Irwin was taken for treatment, but he was dead before they arrived, emergency officials said.
"It became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries," Dr Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, told Nine Network television.
"He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing," he said.
Irwin's death was likely only the third recorded fatal stingray attack in Australia, experts said. They said stingray venom was agonizingly painful but not lethal, although the barb was capable of causing horrific injuries like a knife or bayonet.
"It's not the going in, it's the coming out," Australian Venom Research Unit deputy director Dr Bryan Fry told Reuters.
"They have these deep serrations which tear and render the flesh as it comes out," he said

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I must admit that i'm not a great fan of him, but i admire the fact he's a nature conservist and a wonderful animal lover - those explain the fact he's comfortable around dangerous animals, which occasionally did injured him.

Guess the stingray got the cake for taking his life. Sad though, that something he admired and loved as much as his life took away his.


Steve Irwin. I guess he died doing what he loves doing.


Love & Peace!~


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