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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Whole World weeps for you, Steve Irwin

Steven Robert Irwin (a.k.a Crocodile Hunter), famous naturalist, wildlife expert and TV personality breathed his last on September 4th in an encounter with stingray fish. In the last moments of his life, he was videotaped pulling a venomous stingray barb. This Aussie Icon was swimming in shallow water in Great Barrier Reef for his documentary when a stingray brandished it's tail against him, and the toxic barb made it's way into his chest. The cameraman, was videotaping the scence and could not understand what had happened until the water around him was red i.e stained with blood and he managed to get him on a small inflatable boat. There was a doctor in the team, and as he treated him, they took him to the nearby island within a span of thirty minutes, where a helicopter had landed, by which time, our dearly beloved Steve Irwin died of the poison in the barb.
Stinray are not usually so dangerous-Some zoos in U.S.A allows it's visitor to pat the small sized stingrays. The stingray probably have felt trapped between Irwin and the cameramen, the experts opinion and attacked him, for they are not feasible to attack unless they are provoked. So far, 18 people had died due to their attack, 2 of which's casualties have been occurred in Australia.
This ever-great lover of animals was born on February 22nd, 1962 to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria was best known for the 'Crocodile Hunter', an unconventional documentary series broadcasted worldwide. He rose to fame by his close interactions with many beasts, especially snake and needless to say- Crocodiles.
Irwin's producer and manager, John Stainton was one of the crews on the reef, and described the day as the 'worst' day ever in his life, watching an intimate friend, naturalist and perfect dad die so close.
However, the cops of Queensland considered the incident to be just a tragic accident, after analysing the video tape, at least at this moment.
“It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he’s gone,” Stainton informed the reporters in Cairns, where Irwin’s body was taken for an autopsy. His friend John Stainton told Australian media that the cameraman floated in front of the ray as Irwin swam alongside. The animal likely felt cornered. The barb swung. If the camera hadn't been there, perhaps it would not have feared and then attacked. But if there was no cameras, probably we would not know a single bit of him and he could have been as a frog in a dark cell.
(to be continued)

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