Steve Irwin, Animal Planet’s “Croc Hunter” has died:
Television personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin has died from a stingray wound while filming off north Queensland.
Friends believe he may have died instantly when struck by a stingray as he filmed a sequence for his eight-year-old daughter Bindi’s new TV series.
Irwin’s friend of 20 years, Ferre De Deyne said Irwin had been struck by the stingray while filming. “The stingray just happened to be swimming around and out of the blue whacked his tail at him,” he said.
“It is absolutely tragic. I have dived so many times with stingrays and they are usually very placid things,” he said.
Known worldwide as the Crocodile Hunter, 44-year-old Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchcry “Crikey!”
My heart goes out to his kids and, most especially, his wife who hasn’t been notified yet—she’s hiking somewhere in the wilds of Tasmania.
Still, he apparently died instantly and without pain doing the work that he loved and that he excelled at.
Hear, hear. We here at the Dazzle household miss him terribly already. He might’ve been a bit of a caricature and a bit wack, but he was sincerely himself and his programs were always entertaining and fun.
Totally, totally rotten.
Well, he was never going to die in bed, was he?
Utterly rotten for his friends and family – but at least he died instantly, unexpectedly and probably without much pain, doing something he loved. Not many people manage that.