On 4 September 2006, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, and television programmer Steve Irwin was fatally injured by a stingray barb while filming in the Great Barrier Reef. The stinger pierced his chest, penetrating his thoracic wall and heart, causing massive trauma.[1][2] He was at Batt Reef, near Port Douglas, Queensland, taking part in the production of the documentary Ocean's Deadliest. During a lull in filming caused by inclement weather, Irwin decided to snorkel in shallow waters while being filmed in an effort to provide footage for his daughter Bindi's television program.
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Irwin's death is the only fatality from a stingray captured on video, although it has not been released to the public, and is one of the few human deaths from stingrays.[3][4][5][6] Production was completed on Ocean's Deadliest, which was broadcast in the United States on the Discovery Channel four months after Irwin's death. The documentary was completed with footage shot in the weeks following the accident, but without including any mention of Irwin's death,[7][8] aside from a tribute to Irwin at the end.[9]
While swimming in chest-deep water, Steve Irwin approached a short-tail stingray, with an approximate span of two meters (6.5 ft), from the rear, in order to film it swimming away. He initially believed he had only a punctured lung; however, the stingray's barb pierced his heart, causing him to bleed to death.[10][11] Crew members aboard Irwin's boat administered CPR and rushed him to the nearby Low Isles, where medical staff pronounced him dead.[12][13][14]
Family and friends of Irwin held a private funeral service in Caloundra on 9 September 2006.[26] Irwin was buried in a private ceremony at Australia Zoo later that same day; the grave site is inaccessible to the zoo's visitors.[25] Prime Minister Howard and Queensland Premier Beattie had offered to hold a state funeral, but Irwin's family declined the offer; his father said that he would have preferred to be remembered as an "ordinary bloke".[27]
In the weeks following Irwin's death, at least ten stingrays were found dead and mutilated on the beaches of Queensland, with their tails cut off, prompting speculation as to whether they might have been killed by fans of Irwin as an act of revenge, although, according to the chairperson of the Queensland fishing information service, anglers regularly cut the tails off accidentally caught stingrays to avoid being stung.[30]
(CNN) -- Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, was working with Steve Irwin on a Discovery Channel project called "Ocean's Deadliest" when the popular TV naturalist died this week in a stingray attack.
We had been about 10 days or so into the shoot, and things were going so well, and I think that's, you know, the irony of the whole story was that stingrays weren't even part of, you know, the show. And so I was actually just relaxing and getting ready for our dive that afternoon when everything happened.
And over the last few months we've just been scheduling and putting it together, and it all came together beautifully. And I've been here for a couple weeks now and it was -- it was up until that tragedy quite a wonderful experience.
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