Officials told local media it was consistent with a stingray attack. Steve was catching small crocodiles by the age of nine, and by the age of 13, he was volunteering for Queensland’s East-Coast Crocodile Management Program, where he caught and re-homed over 100 problem crocodiles.
Steve also appeared in other shows such as the children’s series Croc Files, and also had a documentary series called The Crocodile Hunter Diaries that focused on his life with Terri and their family, rather than the work they were doing. He was filming in shallow waters in the Great Barrier Reef when a short-tail stingray … To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. It’s a gruesome reminder of Steve’s passion and dedication to studying and saving animals – even the deadliest ones. Steve's father Bob abruptly left the animal sanctuary shortly two years after the telly star died, but other family members continued working together. 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. Today, any circulating footage that claims to depict the incident is fake.
In the clip he talks about how it would be the "proudest moment" of his life to see his children take up the baton of wildlife conservation.
The final shot was to be of Irwin swimming up to the stingray, with Lyons then filming it swim away.
Steve was dedicated to saving animals, and this love was palpable even from the small screen.
The family runs a wildlife hospital, and Steve’s foundations continue to chug along, helping people and animals wherever they can. She was an American tourist who was also keenly interested in wildlife rehabilitation – she ran her own rehabilitation centre of injured cougars in Oregon.
Stingrays generally do not attack aggressively or even actively defend themselves. Justin said that Steve’s last words were, “I’m dying.”. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Steve Irwin was famed for his documentary series The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin with his wife Terri, left, son Robert and daughter Bindi in 2006, Google paid tribute to Steve with one of their famous Doodle images, This photo shows Steve with wife Terri and Bindi, His family have fallen out and no longer speak to each other, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Steve Irwin's death was so abrupt that it shook the nation to its core. Justin said that Steve’s last words were, “I’m dying. Around the world, only one to two fatal attacks are reported every year.
For other inquiries, Contact Us. The footage from their trip was developed into episode one of The Crocodile Hunter.
He caught sight of a short-tail stingray, which he followed and videoed, but it suddenly attacked him and pierced his heart with its stinger, killing him.
However, when attacked by predators or stepped on, the stinger in their tail is whipped up.
He also founded the Lyn Irwin Memorial Fund, which he established in honour of his mother, who died in an accident in 2000. He was snorkelling in shallow waters in an attempt to get footage for the conservation programme he presented with his daughter - Bindi The Jungle Girl.
But meeting Terri didn’t just change Steve’s personal life, it also changed the course of his career. Justin speculated that the incident was a freak accident, that the stingray must have seen Steve’s shadow and thought it was a tiger shark, prompting it to attack. According to cameraman and close friend to Steve, Justin Lyons, they were in the Great Barrier Reef filming for a documentary series called Ocean’s Deadliest when the freak accident happened.