Steve had become well-known for wearing his khaki-coloured shorts and shirts, for wrestling with crocodiles and picking up venemous snakes and spiders.
He loved all creatures and would rehabilitate kangaroos, nurse injured animals and take in orphaned animals. But during a shoot on 4 September , while he was swimming in shallow waters in the Great Barrier Reef, northern Queensland, he was attacked by a stingray. The crew were after one final shot of Steve and the stingray swimming away before they finished for the day. But all a sudden the stingray propped on its front and started stabbing Steve with its tail.
Steve was aged 44 and left his wife Terri and two children Bindi and Robert, aged eight and two at the time. How did Steve Irwin die? As we're motoring back I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound and we're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Irwin and Lyons were just over a week into filming a series called Ocean's Deadliest on the Great Barrier Reef in September when they took an inflatable boat a short distance from the main vessel carrying the rest of the crew in the hope of finding a tiger shark, Lyons said. Instead they came across a 2. Stingrays are usually calm and will just swim away if frightened, he said. The final shot was to be of Irwin swimming up to the stingray, with Lyons then filming it swim away.
I thought — this is going to be a great shot, fantastic. All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds," said Lyons.
He assumes the animal mistook Irwin's shadow for a tiger shark, its main prey. They were about eight days into the shoot and were on the search for tiger sharks, but hit a patch of bad weather.
Like they had so many times before, they made a plan, and got ready to shoot in the chest-deep waters. The stingray was between the two of them and Irwin would swim toward the camera and Lyons would film the ray swimming away.
Even under those circumstances, Lyons focused on his work. The first priority was to get out of the water since the blood would surely attract sharks. Initially, Irwin thought it punctured his lung. All they could tell was that there was a two-inch injury right over his heart with blood pouring out.
Photo: Australia Zoo via Getty Images. I literally did CPR on him for over an hour. But when they finally got him to medics, the prognosis was clear. After the tragedy, critics came out and said Irwin must have been behaving irresponsibly for something to go so wrong.
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