Cameraman Breaks Silence, Reveals Steve Irwin's Final Moments
The cameraman who filmed Steve Irwin's death eight years ago has come forward about the adventurer's final moments.
"We're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on,'" Justin Lyons told Australian morning show Studio 10 on Sunday. "And he just sort of calmly looked up at me and said, 'I'm dying,' and that was the last thing he said."
Irwin, beloved host of Animal Planet's The Crocodile Hunter, was killed in September 2006 by a stingray while shooting a documentary off the coast of Australia. He was 44.
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"All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds," he said. "It probably thought that Steve's shadow was a tiger shark, which feeds on them very regularly. … I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away, I didn't even know it had caused any damage. It wasn't until I panned the camera back, that Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood, that I realized something had gone wrong."
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"It didn't come out. Steve didn't pull it out. It's a jagged, sharp barb and it went through his chest like a hot knife through butter. He thought it had punctured his lung," Lyons said. "He had about a two-inch-wide injury over his heart with blood and fluid coming out of it."
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Steve knew something when he married the young lady from Oregon…Terri has been the best Mom and
wildlife representative.
His memory is well represented in his family.
Tikki
Did she start using words like "Blimey" and "Crikey"?
LOL...too funny.
Yup! That's Steve with his then one-month old son. What could possible go wrong? In Steve's view, nothing! But I personally think he should at least have been supporting the infant's head
