Can someone tell me if the stingray left the barb behind?
I heard a report that he pulled it out and let the ray go on his way.
Then I heard that the ray leaves the barb behind. Which one is it?
2006-09-11 08:25:58 · 21 answers · asked by Marge Simpson 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
The ray left his barb behind, but unlike a bee still lives.
2006-09-12 08:41:12 · answer #1 · answered by Caffeinated 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A LIFE-long friend of Steve Irwin today told how the Crocodile Hunter pulled a deadly stingray barb from his own chest before losing consciousness and dying.
Friend John Stainton said he had viewed footage of his friend's last moments and the images were "shocking".
"It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die ... and it's terrible," he said.
"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone.
"That was it. The cameraman had to shut down."
Irwin, 44, was filming a television program on the Great Barrier Reef off far north Queensland when the drama unfolded yesterday.
hope this helps...
2006-09-11 08:42:31 · answer #2 · answered by dimitrix_dmx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The barb breaks off, so the ray left it behind-then Steve Irwin pulled it out according to news reports
2006-09-11 08:27:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The ray left the barb behind, Steve Irwin pulled it out then died. It's been a week now I guess.
2006-09-11 08:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by craftykid22 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ray left the barb behind ! and if steve dint pull the barb out he would have lived if he just went to the hospital ASAP!! man i miss that guy i was watching him since iw as 3 yrs old
2006-09-11 08:28:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, Baby Girl's answer is incorrect, even if he didn't pull out the barb, it is covered in a venomous mucus so he would have died from that, or infection later on. Steve would have known about the venom so that's why he pulled it out, he knew what he was doing.
2006-09-11 20:40:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to know a couple named Ray and Barb...how weird is that?
2006-09-11 08:33:25 · answer #7 · answered by HughGRection 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The sting ray will regrow the barb later as Irwin's took it when he died.
2006-09-11 08:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by Apollo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the barb went through his heart and the news reported that he pulled it out just minutes before he died. Probably as much to get it out of his heart than as to let the animal go! OUCH!
2006-09-11 08:28:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
from what i heart the barb stays in until up pull it out.
2006-09-11 08:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by native 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋