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Steve Irwin, also known as the Crocodile Hunter, as we all know, died a few days ago. Mr. Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb whilst snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located of the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland.

"If something ever happens to me, people are gonna say 'we knew a croc would get him!'" - Steve Irwin.

Some reports have claimed that immediately after being stabbed, Irwin pulled the barb out before losing consciousness a short time later. Irwin's colleague John Stainton originally confirmed this account, but he later denied it in an interview on CNN. It is thought, in the absence of a coroner's report, that a combination of the toxins and the puncture wound from the barb caused Irwin to die of cardiac arrest, with most damage being inflicted by tears to arteries or other main blood vessels. It is also possible that he died quickly as a result of a punctured aorta. Until the coroner's report is released, however, the precise cause of Irwin's death remains conjecture.

Mr. Irwin was known for his television show The Crocodile Hunter and his work with native Australian wildlife.

Have we suffered a great loss?

Source: wikipedia.

I heard on the news, just a few minutes ago that they will indeed destroy the tape. I really hope they do. Because who wants to see an amazing person die, anyway? And I don't even want to imagine how hard it would be for his family and friends if they did show it. But there is one tape of the accident, filmed from a helicopter that's been shown. You don't see anything of Irwin, you just see the stingray when it hits Irwin with its barb.

I don't think it would really matter if they did or not. It's already out. It's too late. But I might be wrong though, it might have been some other stingray, and not the one that hit Mr. Irwin. But I believe it was the one that hit him and in that moment, seeing that it's rare that stingrays actually attack.

It is really sweet. However, I just read an article that is not so sweet. Since Steve died ten days ago, there has been alot of dead Stingrays washing up on coastlines. A lot with their tails cut off. Which is both very sad and really annoying. Steve would never have wanted that to happen, even if a snake bit him he just explained that it was his fault and that the species should be protected. He'd do that with the stingray too, and now other people are blaming the stingrays, killing them because of what happened.

Did they forget what Steve Irwin fought for most of his life? I can't believe it. Damned morons.