First of all, I was gathering information on Wikipedia the whole day, and this tragic article was there one the English homepage of Wikipedia all day long with Steve Irwin’s photo, but I never bothered to read it, as I was busy and thought that it might be a regular article. When I came home from office by 9.55pm, my mother said: “That man on the discovery channel who use to catch crocodiles and snakes was killed by a sea creature” and that was a real shocking news.
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22/02/1962 – 04/09/2006) was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming an underwater documentary on the Barrier Reef.
From Wikipedia:
“Shortly after 11:00am local time on 4 September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while diving in Queensland's Batt Reef, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef. The events were caught on camera and the footage is now in the possession of Queensland Police. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, to be called The Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, 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.---------- News of his death prompted a public outpouring expressing shock and loss. Several Australian news websites went down because of high web traffic and talk-back radio experienced a high volume of callers expressing their grief--------His wife Terri was informed of her husband's death while on a walking tour in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania, and returned to the Sunshine Coast with their two children.”
I was always Steve Irwin wannabee, ever since I started watching “The Crocodile Hunter” on the discovery channel. He died doing what he loved, teaching about the animal world.
When at village, sometimes I use to act like him. Although big snakes at very close distance makes me nervous even today. But I can catch small non-poisonous snakes, scorpions (not with bare hands, but I will someday) and small monitor lizards.
Steve’s death was a great loss.
God bless his soul.
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That was shocking news. At least he was doing what he loved...
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