A sad day for reptiles...

[El-Kablooey]

Steve Irwin died monday at 44 years of age. :( He was killed by a stingray while diving.

I can't believe that a stingray took him out after spending his life jumping on crocodile's backs and playing with venomous snakes. He will be missed, I know I love all his shows. It seems that he's started a legacy though, there are a handful of guys on Discovery channel now who try to imitate him. None of them are as fun to watch as he is though.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14663786/

[Mark]

His death seems ironic, who would have guessed a stingray? It was sad to hear the news, and a sad way to die. I just heard they aren't sure if his heart was punctured.
http://tinyurl.com/nudvq
"In 1938, an adult women died after a stab wound to the heart by a stingray. The autopsy showed that the ventricles had been completely transfixed by the barb. An Australian soldier died in 1945 after a stab wound to the left heart, sustained while swimming in seawater baths near Melbourne, Victoria."
http://www.nswseakayaker.asn.au/mag/47/stingrays.html

[Anders Troberg]

An Australian soldier died in 1945 after a stab wound to the left heart, sustained while swimming in seawater baths near Melbourne, Victoria.

Left heart? I didn't know that Australians had a left and a right heart?!?!?

[Irvine.J]

As an Australian it is a sad for enviromentalists and Aussies everywhere. Steve wherever you go I hope you have as much fun in the next realm as you did in this one...keep up your larikin antics!
Your documentries and hard work to promote the ecology of your country was insperational, and of all things a damn stingray! He will be sadly missed, and your passionate words of "Crikey" will resound throughout australia for ever. You were the man steve, rest in piece. We will miss you.

-Aussies just have big happy hearts, unfortunately its not always for the best.

[Mark]

“The left lung of humans has two lobes, whereas the right lung has three lobes, for example. And the left and right sides of the heart are quite different because they have different roles – the heart is a parallel pump.â€

[Anders Troberg]

Ow, please don't break my joke with facts. It's fragile enough as it is.

[Jim Berquist]

I always thought that he was wreck-less and took too many chances. But who would had thought a Ray????

I was snorkeling with a guy in Turkey and he stepped on a Urchin. He spent the next two week fighting blood poisoning....

You just never know. Do You!!!!!


I feel sorry for his wife and kid's!! There the ones that are we should be talking Too!!!!!!!....

Jim

[Mike Spike]

I'll miss him, hi was one of the greatest ;(
Kind of fun?/bisar that it was a sting ray, after all those crocks, Crikey!

According to swedish news he was hit right in the heart.


RIP
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Steve Irwin
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http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/s ... 39,00.html (Swedish news paper)

[Mark]

http://tinyurl.com/zb8k2

[Jim Berquist]

Looks like a primitive arrow point. Cut out of bone. American Indians and Eskimos used the same for fishing and hunting wales! ? I wonder where we got the Idea??????

Jim

[Mark]

http://tinyurl.com/lm6td

[skyfrog]

Yeah a sad day for sure. Next time be careful attending stingray feeding tours.

He will be missed.

[Mark]

I heard on CNN the family wants the film destroyed.
Mark

[Zippiot]

Family...he had at least 2 kids.

Both very very young...

On another point, researches (after examining the film) said he in no way provoked the ray.

I know someone who died when they cut their foot on some red colored coral...dunno what type it was. The sea hides many dangers