Topic: Crikey! He's dead...

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20349890-5005961,00.html



(Edited by Dracusis on 09-04-2006 06:32)

holy frack!

Not good.

i couldnt beleive it when i heard!

really feel for his family and his to children

RIP stevo.

btw Drac, where abouts in brisvegas are you? i'm in brizzie at the moment!

RIP

When ya go, ya might as well go quick, doin' what ya love....

That's sad... he was a cool guy.

Just thought I'd stop-in to share my own thoughts. How profoundly absurd it is thing that a man who routinely wrestled crocodiles and handled large/poisonous snakes had his life brought to an abrupt end by a stingray. In the last fifty years, there have only been two recorded Australian deaths by stingrays. I can't help thinking that Steve would have appreciated the oddity of his own death.

He's gone now - no bother for him. I feel for his loved ones; perhaps it is of some small comfort to them seeing the scale of shock and horror around the world at his demise.

What a bloke.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzz.....

farwell to another great Australian peter brock, 9 times bathurst 1000 winner and a childhood hero of mine.
he was killed when his car hit a tree durning a tarmac rally in western australia.

least he whent doing what he loved.

RIP brockie!

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I wonder what he was doing with a stingray to get a barb in the chest. I've dived with stingrays in 3 different oceans/seas and been real "up close and personal" with them, but I never once saw a defence reaction, never mind a raised barb. They try real hard to swim away from a threat. They only sting when trapped in a very tight spot (Like under your foot, or in your hands).

Don't get me wrong, I loved the Steve Irwin programs, and think he did great things to dispel a lot of animal myths, but sometimes I got the feeling that he was too daredevil, and this time, perhaps, he pushed the envelope too far. We all know how good he was with reptiles, mammals, even walking inects and arachnoids, but fish are different ... they live in an alien environment, where human faculties are just not tuned for rapid reactions ...

May he find a heaven full of excitement.

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(Edited by trib on 09-13-2006 10:07)

Trib, he was filming a new documentry, so they have the how thing on tape. Everyone who has seen the tape (cops and producers) Steve was just swiming about a meter above the stingray. he wasn't harrassing it or even trying to get close to it.

I've also snorkeled with stingrays before and agree with you i've never seen a stingray get defensive, they always swim away the little pussys.