ummmm...yea....im sure many of u know this guy.....hez the guy who changed shape of the sydney zoo...started creating awereness of conservation of animals...n hez the who dedicated his lyf fo this thing....hez popularly known as the crocodile hunter....australia's steve irwin...well im sure many of u may be knowin that steve irwin passed away last week when his heart got drilled by a stingray while he waz shhotin a documentary fo his daughter...really it waz a bad accident...there is also a tape showing how he died....it shows that he swam over the stingray n the tail of the stingray came over him n stung him in the heart...itz amazin that the tape shows steve irwin takin out the tail n in the next moment hez dead!..thats it the cameraman had to close the camera......it waz a huge lost to the world..a huge one....now that he waz successful in spreadin his ideas of conservation...the question is- WHAT CAN WE DO????im sure u won say no to his legacy...after all we deeply regret his death....the great steve IRWIN....
yea....he was a reall gud guy...i mean loadz of gutz to catch da snakes n open corcs mouths etc etc,.....infact i had recieved a mail 1 week bak abt him.....will post it asap....
CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA: Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter", was killed on Monday by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was in the water 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, said John Stainton, a friend and colleague.
"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.
Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter", which was first broadcast in Australia in 1992 before it was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting him to international celebrity.
He rode his image into a feature film, 2002's "The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course" and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction...
"The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns.
"He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, Crocs Rule!"
Prime Minister John Howard, who hand-picked Irwin to attend a gala barbecue to honour US president George Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was "shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, untimely and freakish death."
"It's a huge loss to Australia," Howard told reporters. "He was a wonderful character. He was a passionate environmentalist. He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people."
Irwin, who made a trademark of hovering dangerously close to suntethered crocodiles, often leaping on their backs, talked mile-a-minute in a thick Australian drawl and was almost never seen in anything but khaki shorts and shirt, and heavy boots.
His ebullience was infectious and Australian officials sought him out for photo opportunities and to promote Australia internationally.
The public image was dented in 2004 when Irwin triggered an uproar by holding his baby in one arm while feeding large crocodiles.
yea there he waz involved in controversies like that one involvin his baby...anotha one was when he got too close to penguins in antarctica...but all have forgiven him...hez the true son of australia....
hey yea..........i saw d marathon special dedicated 2 him. he was a good carin guy. though i dint like his australian accent.bt wateva. yea he had ll dose complaints abt holdin a baby under one am n a croc wid anuzzer...........bt the world always could do wid more ppl like him............
Amen.
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yea man. .... he ws a gr8 n also surrounded by loads of controversies ....... i m nt sure many if many of u read young times ..... but the last issue was completely on him in the cover story do tk a look if u r able too....
he was a gr8 man at heart. bt he died doin wat he loved doin best. so atleast he felt he made a place for himself on earth n in our hearts. he lived up 2 why he was put here, n teaches us a lesson. hats off t Steve Irwin, d animal lover.
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yea dats dere, his wife bein an environmentalist as well.n his poor kidz...they rejected d idea of a public funeral..........all d press n all will b drivin dem crazy ...dey must b grief stricken n irritated wid d press..,
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most intrestin part of this is when mr. steve died his wife terry...she was out for rock climbin in tasmania...imagine what wud have hppnd when she wud have cum to know bout de death of her husband.......a mere SHOCK!!!
