The cameraman, Justin Lyons, is said to be the sole witness to the Sept. 4, 2006, attack and captured the incident with his lens. But not by a dangerous creature such as a crocodile or shark, because Irwin was so adept at dealing with such wildlife. “It wasn’t until I panned the camera back... Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood.”, This account contradicts earlier claims that Irwin had died after removing the stingray’s barb after it had become lodged in the middle of his chest. His first thought was that the pair needed to get out of the water quickly, lest they start attracting sharks. Stingrays have several sharp and venomous barbs on their tails that they use to defend themselves when they feel threatened, though experts at the time stressed that stingrays were not usually vicious and rarely attacked and killed humans. The pair decided to go back under water for “one last shot” of Irwin behind the stingray before it swam off into the ocean. It all happened so quickly that Lyons did not immediately realize something had gone wrong. Iran records its highest daily death toll from coronavirus. But it took professionals only seconds to look at Irwin and declare him dead. A crew member put pressure on the wound while he tried to calm his friend. "I was saying to him things like 'think of your kids Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on', and he calmly looked up at me and said 'I'm dying' and that was the last thing he said.". Known for his "Crikey!" “I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away. The cameraman and Irwin shot some footage that they hoped to use for a different project, and were conferring on what they’d gotten so far. Record-breaking python captured in Florida Everglades hunt. South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison’s campaign reports he raised $57 million in the final quarter in the race against GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham. A pair of trappers caught a record-breaking Burmese python during a hunt for the South Florida Water Management District. And as it turns out that’s exactly what it was.”, See First Lady Michelle Obama’s new look: Blond highlights, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl always has a full plate: Infographic, #Fail: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford gets daylight saving all wrong. Hay display supporting Biden-Harris ticket goes up in flames on Mass. “I’m dying.” Those were “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin’s final words, according to a cameraman who said he urged the wildlife icon to “think of his kids” and “hang on” after being stabbed by a stingray in a fatal, freak attack. In what is being billed as a world exclusive interview, the underwater cameraman told Australia’s Studio 10 that some of the details that were initially made public about Irwin’s death were incorrect. The cameraman who witnessed the death of the Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin on Monday revealed that a stingray stabbed at him "hundreds of times" and his final words were "I'm dying". The sole witness to the tragic death of Steve Irwin revealed the Crocodile Hunter's final moments of his tragic death after "hundreds" of fatal strikes by a "massive" stingray. Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. How the coronavirus is changing L.A. County’s waste stream. We moved into together on March 14. "It's a jagged barb and it went through his chest like a hot knife through butter," he said. “I was saying to him things like, ‘Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on,’” he said. GOP governors offer upbeat views in states with spiking coronavirus cases.

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