Originally posted on September 4, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
I just read that Television personality and environmentalist Steve “Crikey” 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.
Apparently Irwin had been filming a new documentary called Ocean’s Deadliest with friend and manager John Stainton at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas about 11am.
While swimming he came over the top of a stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart. From the reports I’ve read, he possibly died instantly when the barb hit him.
He leaves behind his American-born wife Terri and her two children, Bindi Sue, 8, and three-year-old son Robert Clarence, usually known as Bob, 3.