Sadly, Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails.
Its just absolutely unbelievable! To be killed by a huge crocodile or bitten by a snake is still believable. BUT , a stingray instead O.O There's only been three cases in Australia of deaths by stingrays in the last 100 years. Seventeen worldwide. So it's a tremendous freak accident. And its very unlucky for him to be pierced by the barb through his ribcage and into his heart, which caused his instant death.
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