Steve "Croc Hunter" Irwin

[deanosbeano 0]

A sad day for 2 reasons

the untimely death of a fantastic naturalist and tv presenter

and also sad because ,them feckin Irwin alikes that came out the woodwork will be on tv even more and that English guy is shite and the rest are at best are a poormans steve irwin.

R.I.P steve irwin

my favourite saying "Faster than A Lizard drinking"

[kakagoegie 0]

RIP

As a child I always watched his show. He will be missed.

[Shashman 0]

Damn I saw him in Dr.Doolittle 2 just yesterday and was like "woohoo! It's him! "

[j w 0]

OMG.. I totally missed that..

RIP Steve and condolences to his family...

[figjam 0]

Top bloke and a true blue aussie, he'll be missed but not forgotten.

[Guest Ti0n3r]

I really liked this guy...

R.I.P.

[kavoven 4]

Damn, my whole family and I really liked his shows and even my dad was sad about his death... R.I.P.

[MAA3057 0]

One of those deaths that will slightly alter the future of things

R.I.P. Steve.

[TrevorOfCrete 0]

a tragic loss for the world

[-Snafu- 78]

A true legend.

R.I.P

[chipper 0]

Damn this sucks, I used to watch him on his TV shows and I loved it when he came on my favorite late night talk shows. He was a great guy and he will be missed by millions.

RIP Steve

[Supah 0]

Damn I never knew this guy had this many fans. I thought he was wreckless, a thrill seeker and totally irresponsible. This was bound to happen really, if you piss off wild animals for long enough sooner or later one is going to get you.

[denoir 0]

Well yes, but this was a freak accident. Sting rays are generally very docile creatures, very unlikely to respond in an aggressive manner. In general they run away, they don't attack. They are very popular with divers and considered to be fairly safe to be around.

In case they are completely cornered they can instinctively react by putting up their barbed tail. This is very rare, but it is really one in a million that at the moment it put up its tail a human would be directly above it, positioned in such a way that the barb penetrated the chest and could go straight through the heart.

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

Damn... this is a great loss for nature and man. He really died before his age but at least he was K.I.A. - probably happier than dying of age or disease - but I'd still loved to have him around for another 40+ years...

RIP, Steve Irvin.

[mattxr 9]

Well yes, but this was a freak accident. Sting rays are generally very docile creatures, very unlikely to respond in an aggressive manner. In general they run away, they don't attack. They are very popular with divers and considered to be fairly safe to be around.

In case they are completely cornered they can instinctively react by putting up their barbed tail. This is very rare, but it is really one in a million that at the moment it put up its tail a human would be directly above it, positioned in such a way that the barb penetrated the chest and could go straight through the heart.

not unless you are poking at it.. you seen him with snakes and crocks, you know what hes like..

RIP . Steve

[ozanzac 0]

Quote[/b] ]Dramatic videotape of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's last moments shows him pulling from his chest the poisonous stingray barb that killed him, officials said Tuesday, as tributes poured in for the beloved naturalist famed for getting dangerously close to deadly beasts.

http://www.iht.com/article....led.php

Not suprising that Steve was being filmed at the time, but far out... His final move, in pulling the fatal barb from his chest, after suggestions it would have killed him instantly, is no mean feat by any standards.

He died a true mans death...I only hope the suffering was kept to a minimum.

[JdB 151]

I heard on tv from a police commisioner that from the video footage it appears that Steve was not provoking the stingray.

Perhaps the proximity of Steve + cameraman + boat may have triggered a preemptive strike from the stingray.

As with all kinds or research, there is the passive research (observation) and the active research (catching the animal and researching it). The only way to get anti-venom for example is to capture the snake or spider or other animal and force it to donate poison. Risks have to be taken to save more lives in the future.

[Supah 0]

The only way to get anti-venom for example is to capture the snake or spider or other animal and force it to donate poison. Risks have to be taken to save more lives in the future.

Ah so he was manhandling crocks and generally aggravating them so an anti venom could be made for crocodile bites! Glad you explained that, I just though he was being wreckless.

[VISTREL 0]

Do you think the next victim will be Jeff Corwin ? Im thinking, after Steve, who will be the next glorified naturalist ?

[Placebo 29]

Do you think the next victim will be Jeff Corwin ? Im thinking, after Steve, who will be the next glorified naturalist ?

I think such a comment is not appropriate.

[VISTREL 0]

Do you think the next victim will be Jeff Corwin ? Im thinking, after Steve, who will be the next glorified naturalist ?

I think such a comment is not appropriate.

What I meant was all these TV entertainers try to beat each other in terms of shock value. And it's the question of "when", not "if" when wildlife will give its next surprise.

[Placebo 29]

Well that's a debate for another thread on another forum, not this forum, not this thred.

[sanctuary 19]

Unfortunately it is nt surprising one of the modern media naturalist died, considering the irresponsible risks all of them are "forced" to take to make enough audience and not lose their tv job nowadays.

But very sad it happened anyways as he was not very old had plenty of time in front of him and is now leaving his own family in the sadness without him.

May he rests in peace in a better world that is not plagued by the "audience at all costs".

[Pathy 0]

Steve Irwins "risk taking" was nothing to do with having commercially to get an audience, you can just see from watching him, he was truely passionate about what he was doing, and he really believed he was doing good. Behind the "crazy aussie who wrestles crocs" persona, he was also a committed conservationalist and wildlife expert, and his way of making people care about wildlife was to try and make it exciting for them, and to try and get people involved in conserving our natural world.

You may all bash him as irresponsible or wreckless, but in (roughly) his own words "if you can't make people interested about it, how the heck are we going to save it?", so yes, you may think he was irresponsible, you may think he was wreckless, but if he was, only in an attempt to make us all care about the natural world before we destroy it through our own irresponsibility. It's a pretty noble goal, and if he was willing to risk his own life to make us care, i don't see how you can criticise that. Sad maybe that he had to go to such extremes to make the rest of us care about the things that mattered to him...Steve Irwin, i salute you.

[wheres my rabbit ? 10]

Steve Irwins "risk taking" was nothing to do with having commercially to get an audience, you can just see from watching him, he was truely passionate about what he was doing, and he really believed he was doing good. Behind the "crazy aussie who wrestles crocs" persona, he was also a committed conservationalist and wildlife expert, and his way of making people care about wildlife was to try and make it exciting for them, and to try and get people involved in conserving our natural world.

You may all bash him as irresponsible or wreckless, but in (roughly) his own words "if you can't make people interested about it, how the heck are we going to save it?", so yes, you may think he was irresponsible, you may think he was wreckless, but if he was, only in an attempt to make us all care about the natural world before we destroy it through our own irresponsibility. It's a pretty noble goal, and if he was willing to risk his own life to make us care, i don't see how you can criticise that. Sad maybe that he had to go to such extremes to make the rest of us care about the things that mattered to him...Steve Irwin, i salute you.

its a shame he's gone but sometimes he was just a fukwit