Crikey! This is so sad! Steve Irwin killed by stingray while diving on GBR:

[Ninong]

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.

Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time.

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[Frag Hag]

"Alec... for $500.00... I'll take: What is playing russian roulette with nature?'

[zhenya]

It is very said indeed!

I was reading about his death online this morning and remembered my trip this summer to Caymans. We went on the trip to play with stingrays there and I found them extremely gentle and playful, I remember holding one in my arms pressed tightly against my chest...

A real freakish death if you ask me...

[Jamie9169]

I always thought that it would be one of the crocs that got him.

[charlie]

His show always provided alot of entertainment in our house, with any luck at all we will be able to continue to watch his escapades.

[charlie]

I always thought that it would be one of the crocs that got him.

Hey there, welcome to Reefland.

[Jamie9169]

Thank you very much. I am in the process of upgrading to a 300 gallon and I am sure I will be bugging everyone for information.

[charlie]

What's your current tank size?

[pkiff]

Well, I for one, will miss him. My brother and I grew up on Steve. I had always thought he was immortal. Guess I was wrong...

[Reefland]

Very sad and so unexpected, even knowing how it occured now the chances of this happening are so slim.

[zhenya]

pkiff,