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Ursprungligen postat av jango
Det är väl inte så komplicerat egentligen. En stingrocka kan stickas med sin svans. Irwin kom för nära, blev stucken olyckligt och dog.
Med tanke på hur Irwin handskades med djur så är det väl inte en alltför djärv gissning att han försökte sig på samma sak fast med ett djur han inte väl kände till och i en miljö han inte behärskade.
Han blev för övrigt stungen i bröstet, och om man ser var taggen sitter på en stingrocka, samt att dess räckvidd inte är särskilt lång,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:D..._stingray).gif
(halvvägs ut på stjärten)
inser man att Irwin måste ha varit väldigt nära. Sålunda rörde sig Irwin farligt nära den giftiga taggen på ett djur han inte visste tillräckligt mycket om, samtidigt som han befann sig i en miljö där han inte snabbt kunde "hoppa" undan. En stingrocka sticker inte en dykare oprovocerat!
Från Wikipedia
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On September 4, 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine whilst snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the stingrays. "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 the Croc One.
The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police. After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger by automatically flexing the serrated spine on its tail (which can measure up to 25 cm/10 in in length) in an upward motion.
Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed the animal in. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." The stinging of Irwin by the bull ray was "a one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Time magazine. "I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that to me..."
Initially, when Irwin's colleague, John Stainton, was interviewed by CNN's Larry King late on September 4, 2006 he denied the suggestion that Irwin had pulled the spine out of his chest, or that he had seen footage of the event, insisting that the anecdote was "absolute rubbish." The following day, when he first described the video to the media, he stated, "Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here [in the chest], and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone."
Accidentally, mitt arsle. Jag tror att han "råkade" stänga in rockan lika mycket som han "råkade" bolla med giftormar och krokokiler. Han älskade naturen, men hade en väldigt vriden syn på hur man skall bete sig i den.
Lite gravhumor från Norm MacDonald, angående Irwins död:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/244327...n_steve_irwin/
Verkar intressant 
