I meant him getting attacked by other animals other than the ray, sorry for the confussion guys.

Oh, I see. Yeah, your last post made it seem like they had the stingray attack tape. Oh well.

Well, they do have the tape, but they won't release it.

I heared about that yesterday that's really sad he was cool.

He was in the middle of doing a documentary too.

Yeah, they had to look at it.

"Queensland state police were holding the tape as evidence for a coroner?s inquiry ? a standard procedure in high-profile deaths or those caused by other than natural causes." - Associated Press

I read an account this morning of what is on the tape, and it is really disturbing-disturbing in the fact that had ONE thing NOT happened, Steve might still be alive.

He was fully concious and climbed back into the boat on his own power following being speared in the chest. He knew he had taken a hit to the chest, but apparently did not realize how bad. He spotted the barb sticking out of his chest and did what most people would have done, but what is actually the worst thing to do in such a case-he pulled it out himself. He promptly lost conciousness and fell. Had he left the barb in place and remained very still, there is a possibility that even with the barb lodged in his heart, he could have been gotten into surgery and been saved, since the helicopter was already en route to pick him up. Having been trained as a first responder myself, one of the things we are taught is that is a person has a foreign object lodged in or embedded in their body, especially a sharp projectile, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REMOVE IT! Leave it in place, and stablize it with pressure bandages and keep the person as still as possible; let the surgeons deal with removing it in the hospital OR. People HAVE survived objects through the heart; I have seen a news broadcast of a woman in Oklahoma City who had a large shard of glass right through her chest following a tornado, who survived because the ER people knew not to try to move it. The glass shard had pierced her heart, too, and one lung, but she lived. Often, the object itself will block off arterial bleeding, or it may be lodged in such as way that to pull on it will sever an artery. There is a chance that Steve Irwin would still be alive if he'd left the barb in place, but he probably did not realize the seriousness of the situation, and thought that it was only embedded in muscle outside the chest.

pitbulllady

Omg that really is disturbing!:o For everything to happen in just the wrong way from the barb piercing his chest to the fact he may have lived if he had left it...

Steve was kind of an idol to me as I'm very pro-conservation and I love animals. I was deeply shocked that he had been killed, especially when he had been killed by a stingray! He did a lot to educate everyone, even the young about how we should conserve and respect our wildlife and their habitats. I'm so sorry for his family too, but hope that in their own way they will continue to educate the world.

Still, at least he died doing what he loved. I couldn't see him dying any other way (except maybe falling victim to a different animal... and later on in life).

Thank you, Crocodile Hunter.

I'm not really surprised that he'd one day die doing the kind of stuff he loves (it's great that he loved the animals, but it was also dangerous), although I never thought he would be killed as a result of being pierced through the chest by a stingray barb (statistically, human fatalities from stingray attacks are extremely rare). Anyway, it's a shame that he went down like that.

I feel sorry for Bindi and Bob who will grow up without a dad. :(