is this true?? i've been at work all day and someone just called me and told me that steve irwin, that crocodile hunter guy was ran over by a corvette stingray???
2006-09-04 17:59:42 · 7 answers · asked by drtyfckr 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Steve was stabbed in the heart by a stingray barb
2006-09-04 18:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Manta Ray Corvette managed to elude the Great Irwin but your right, the Corvette Stingray bore a hole in his chest and was flat out and never surfaced. It is a hit and run.
They have to dive in to get the Crocodile Hunter while the Great Irwin is in trouble.
2006-09-05 01:20:00 · answer #2 · answered by wacky_racer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. He got stung through the heart by a bull ray filiming around the Great Barrier Reef.
From marine documentary maker Ben Cropp:
Mr Cropp, who was also diving on the Great Barrier Reef today, said he contacted a member of Irwin's production crew late today.
"I spoke to one of the guys who was out there, who saw the footage. I wanted to get the truth,” said Mr Cropp, 70, who also runs a museum at Port Douglas.
Mr Cropp said Irwin was swimming as his cameraman was filming bull rays at Batt Reef, when the tragedy occurred.
"In this case he was swimming alongside a bull ray, a big black ray and the cameraman would have been in front, filming him.”
"Steve got probably maybe a bit too close to the ray, and with the cameraman in front, the ray must have felt sort of cornered.
"It baulked but didn't spook and go racing away, which would have been fine.
"It went into a defensive mode, stopped, turned around and lashed out with its tail which has a considerable spike on it.
"Unfortunately Steve was directly in its path and he took a fatal wound.
"It was a freak accident in that it caught him in the chest, near the heart.”
Mr Cropp said the incident occurred in shallow water, less than two metres deep, and members of the film crew were "very upset”.
"I trust this person has told me the full info ... he admired Steve, the way I do, and he would have liked to get everything straight so there are no false stories running around.”
2006-09-05 01:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by callahan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and how that wonderful car ran underwater is the greatest mystery
2006-09-05 06:05:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If comedy is your aim, keep that job you have!
2006-09-05 01:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you call this work?
2006-09-05 02:23:19 · answer #6 · answered by acid tongue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hurry up
2006-09-05 01:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by amberharris20022000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋