

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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