is that fish so damn dangerous n poisonous that it cud kill a guy like Steve ??
2006-09-13 20:05:08 · 14 answers · asked by bruno 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Discovery channel did an excellent show on his life and death, as well as covering how dangerous a stingray is. Apparently, he died from his heart being punctured long before the poison could kill him.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/09/04/irwin2_hum.html?category=human&guid=20060904163030&&clik=news_main
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2006-09-14 00:38:49 · answer #1 · answered by iceni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As several have stated: The heart being stabbed was the fatal blow.
Since that accident many sting ray have been found dead along beaches there and they were killed out right with some missing the barbed end of their tails (cut off).
Rays aren't dangerous but humans are.
2006-09-14 08:24:17 · answer #2 · answered by dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can live through a sting from a sting ray, it's the fact that the barb went directly into Steve's heart. The fact that he pulled the barb out mixed w/ the poision right in his heart killed him nearly instantly.
2006-09-14 03:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by strwbrywn20 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve's critical weekness was that he required a hole-free heart to pump poisonless blood through his mighty croc annoying body. Once that pesky ole stingray rammed his tail barb through the man's heart and filled it with poison steve was in for the fight of his life.. or death.
2006-09-14 03:09:25 · answer #4 · answered by W0LF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are very poisonous, but Steve died because it stabbed him in the heart. The poison is not as deadly as many many other things in the ocean.
Man, the ocean's a creepy place!
2006-09-14 03:12:33 · answer #5 · answered by niwriffej 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On tv people said that stingrays barely ever kill people. I think what killed Steve Irwin was more of a freak accident than anything.
2006-09-14 03:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by beachgirlkandy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They said on the news that he was more likely to be struck by lightning than have that happen. They are supposedly one of the less deadly animals in the ocean. It was truely a freak accident.
2006-09-14 03:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by narmy_grl 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was just a freak accident. They are poisonous, but can't really harm people.
2006-09-14 03:08:17 · answer #8 · answered by star_catcher84 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was an accident. The stingray probably thought that he was a Shark or his prey. I bless him and his family.
2006-09-14 08:56:24 · answer #9 · answered by DaJessta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about them?
2006-09-14 03:12:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋