Should Steve Irwin known that he should have not?

Question

Steve knew the wild animals. Should he have known that swimming with a stingray (something that I have done) with a camera man in front of him was dangerous?

Answer 1

Steve has always known the risks involved working with wild animals. Not just with stingrays. Every animal that he has ever worked with was potentially dangerous.
Steve was a person who loved animals and worked to help them at any cost. He knew the dangers of working with crocodiles. He knew the dangers of working with sharks.He knew all the dangers that were involved with his job.
Yet he took the job because he loved animals and he wanted to help them. Every zoologist or scientist that works with animals knows that there is always danger involved. Wild and even captive animals are unpredictable you never always guess what they are going to do next.
Steve had already been bitten and clawed and one time I heard even poisoned by some animals.
Steve like every other zoologist knew that the very animals he protected could kill him.
In fact he knew he was goig to die at the hands of one one day.
Steve was one of my biggest idols and generations to come will remember him as so far the BEST person to ever work with animals
He will be missed but his teachings will continue throughout his family and the other people who admired him

So Steve Irwin R.I.P

Answer 2

I'm sure he did know it was dangerous, but I don't think that necessarily means he "should have not". We all try to make the best decisions possible by balancing the risks verses the possible benefits, and I believe that is just what Steve Irwin did. He recognized the risks of his chosen career, but he chose it anyway because he loved his work and believed in his cause.

I wonder though, if perhaps his fatal mistake was in pulling the barb out after he was stung. Perhaps if he had left it in, it could have functioned as a plug and kept him from bleeding to death long enough for him to get medical treatment. He will be missed.

Answer 3

In the news, you hear about this incident was a case of wildlife being unpredicatable. The fact remains, this is a very predictable behavior for skates and rays. When they feel threatened or are attacked (even accidently, like being stepped on when they are hidden in the sand). Most biologists working in these types of habitats know the "stingray shuffle" to avoid going over a ray and not to put lots of pressure on them when swimming overhead.

Regardless, it was a tragic event and I'm sorry to see the loss of someone who made great strides in conservation biology and awareness.

Answer 4

It was a freak accident. I scuba dive and have swum with stingrays. If he forgot anything it was that mobility underwater is much more limited than on land. It was a terribly sad thing. But watch out world, I think Bindy is going to really go places. Somewhere Steve is looking down and ginning like a gowanna!

Answer 5

He was doing all of this to inform the public and spread the message of conservation. He believed the benefits to the world out weighed the risks to himself. He was a hero, a Wildlife Warrior.

Answer 6

This is pure speculation, but perhaps he has been filming and working with dangerous animals for so long that he had almost been 'numbed' to a knowledge of how dangerous they really are and may have got careless.

*shrugs*

Answer 7

every thing he did was dangerous. that is why he was such a good man and why people loved him it come with people saying he was stupid but that was a miner. I liked him. yes he know but life is about taking risks and that's what his I don't think he'd have it any other way

Answer 8

Even the best of experts make mistakes.

Answer 9

it was a freak accident

Answer 10

I really don't know WTF happened.Anyhow I am really sorry for the incident.God rest his soul