[Oz Girl]

What are we Aussies going to do without the Crocodile Hunter??!!

[RN17972]

One of the best nature presenters .... gone.....
After all the rummors about his death over the years, I guess it had to happen finallly.
Rest in peace.
We'll miss him.
Actually, feel sorry for his kids really.

[JBest]

Very sad - feel very sorry for his small children.

[insomniac]

I believe he had toned it down over the last few years...the stingray isn't a mean animal when compared with some of the other things he has messed with before. Just a freak accident...but a costly one.

RIP

[Pekkerhead]

Originally Posted by tx75070

How does a sting ray barb go through ones chest?

I agree, that must have been one mighty ray as the barbs aren't that long on a stringray. Sounds like a bit of poetic licence. Doesn't change the fact that it is a terrible thing.

I will never be able to watch "Wiggly Safari" again without feeling sad.

[Sunfire]

I'm not shocked. When you live on the edge, you fall off eventually. He most certainly lived, rather than just existing. At least he died doing something he loved.

[Pekkerhead]

ok, according to the UK times it was a strike 'to' the chest as opposed to 'through' the chest.

But even so, as a keen scuba diver I had no idea this sort of thing could happen. In the leg followed by immense pain yes - but in the chest and then your dead. Totally unexpected and shocking.

[Lammarite]

Originally Posted by Pekkerhead

ok, according to the UK times it was a strike 'to' the chest as opposed to 'through' the chest.

But even so, as a keen scuba diver I had no idea this sort of thing could happen. In the leg followed by immense pain yes - but in the chest and then your dead. Totally unexpected and shocking.

I'm guessing that if he was scuba diving there was pressure inside the lungs + piercing by barb = huge depressurisation and coronary.

[Pekkerhead]

i just read another article which said he was filming bull stingrays whose barbs can be up to 20 cm long. I guess that would do a lot of damage wouldn't it?

[PDLM]

I guess the video will be on youtube soon...