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Im Gobsmacked he was a great charactor of animal fame. Hope his wife (Terri) is ok and with lots of family! What a tradgic ending to Steve's life!
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Posted: 2006-09-04 20:16:14
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Australia mourns 'colourful son'
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has led tributes to naturalist Steve Irwin who was killed by a stringray while diving off the Queensland coast.
He was known for his Crocodile Hunter TV show and his love of wildlife.
Mr Irwin, 44, was struck in the chest by a stingray's barb while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef.
The prime minister said that he had known Steve Irwin well, and that the country had lost a "wonderful and colourful son".
Mr Howard said he was "quite shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden untimely and freakish death".
"It's a huge loss to Australia - he was a wonderful character, he was a passionate environmentalist, he brought entertainment and excitement to millions of people."
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Queensland's Tourism Minister Margaret Keech praised Mr Irwin for his work saying he had done a lot to promote Australia to the rest of the world and would be greatly missed.
British zoologist Mark O'Shea said his death would leave an "immense hole" in the worlds of both conservation and television, adding that Irwin had "paved the way" for other people to work in those fields.
That view was echoed by British naturalist and TV presenter David Bellamy who said he had wept upon hearing the news.
Mr Bellamy called him "one of the great showmen and conservationists".
"He did take enormous risks, but he knew what he was doing. It was one of the terrible, terrible, terrible accidents and I wish to God it didn't happen," Mr Bellamy told the BBC.
UK wilderness expert Ray Mears said that Mr Irwin's death was a tragedy and that his thoughts were with his family, but that the incident served as a warning that "some things in nature should be left alone".
"He clearly took a lot of risks and television encouraged him to do that," Mr Mears said. "The voyeurism we are seeing on television has a cost and it's that cost Steve Irwin's family are paying today."
Usually docile
The incident happened at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas in Queensland, while Mr Irwin was being filmed snorkelling with bull stingrays.
"He came over the top of a stingray and a barb, the stingray's barb went up and put a hole into his heart," Mr Irwin's manager John Stainton told the BBC.
"We got him back within a couple of minutes to Croc 1, which is Steve's research vessel, and by 12 o'clock when the emergency crew arrived they pronounced him dead."
The flat, triangular stingray gets its name from the razor-sharp barb at the end of its tail, coated in toxic venom.
But the animal only uses this weapon defensively when it feels threatened or is stepped on.
Attacks on humans are a rarity - only two other people are known to have died in Australia from a stingray attack.
Experts say that while painful, stingray venom is rarely lethal and it would have been the wound caused by the barb itself which proved fatal.
Mr Irwin was famous for handling dangerous creatures such as crocodiles, snakes and spiders, and his documentaries on his work with crocodiles drew a worldwide audience.
But he also courted controversy with a series of stunts.
He sparked outrage across Australia after cradling his one-month-old son a metre away from the reptile during a show at Australia Zoo.
An investigation was launched into whether Mr Irwin and his team interacted too closely with penguins and whales while filming in the Antarctic, but no action was taken.
Steve Irwin: In Pictures
I very nearly cried and have been on the verge since I got home...
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Posted: 2006-09-04 20:39:06
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aye, same... at least he went the way he loved to do... i mean better this than shot by some thugs, if you see where i am coming from
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Posted: 2006-09-04 22:19:10
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As Steve himself would say "Corr what a beauty"
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Posted: 2006-09-04 23:30:47
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This is a funny clip of Steve doing what he did best in a cartoon clip from
2D TV
Steve May you Rest in Peace!
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Posted: 2006-09-05 02:58:20
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He is a true legend. Not many individuals had the ability to read animals as well as Steve Irwin. He could get so close to them because he understood them so well.
The world's understanding and appreciation of animals and the natural world is so much more complete now thanks to Steve's willingness to get up close and personal with them and to share it with the rest of us.
It's a sad sad loss.
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Posted: 2006-09-05 03:22:09
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Steve was 'born to be wild'. It's not just a loss to mankind alone but far more a loss to the animal kind. All he did was interpret for both the worlds and help understand each other.
"DEATH IS JUST ANOTHER STEP THAT WE ALL HAVE TO TAKE"
STEVE R.I.P
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Posted: 2006-09-05 07:53:14
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will miss his shows..
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Posted: 2006-09-05 12:48:32
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDd81BxVnOc
Crocodile hunter remix
Ps, is there any any DVDs available for this show?
need to grab emm up fast guys
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Posted: 2006-09-05 15:43:27
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R.I.P Steve
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Posted: 2006-09-05 16:00:02
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