'Until you actually see that you can't imagine it. 'The fact that we finally got him home and the family saw the casket last night, it was like a full stop. All copies were destroyed except for one which was given to wife Terri (centre) The footage was handed over to authorities who returned it after their investigation was complete. 'He just sort of calmly looked up at me and said, "I'm dying." And that was the last thing he said.' 'As we're motoring back, I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound, and we're saying to him things like, "Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on". 'It probably thought Steve's shadow was a tiger shark, who feeds on them pretty regularly, so it started to attack him,' Lyons said. Irwin told his team the ray 'punctured me lung' after being hit, not realising it had instead struck his heart. 'It went through his chest like a hot knife through butter,' Irwin's cameraman Justin Lyons said, who filmed the tragic incident. The stingray pierced Irwin's chest as he swam over it and struck his heart, with crews rushing the icon to their boat. Rays use the barbs, which are three venomous spinal blades in its tail, as a defence mechanism when threatened or stepped on. Irwin swam above the usually docile and harmless stingray, before it projected one of its barbs into his chest - potentially mistaking him for a shark.
Irwin was diving for his new show on the day of his death, with crews initially attempting to track a deadly tiger shark off the reef.Īfter failing to find one, Irwin instead locked in on a large, eight-foot stingray for a separate project they were working on, believed to be his daughter's Bindi the Jungle Girl show. Irwin became one of the world's most beloved and recognisable conversationists thanks to his larger than life personality
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