I'm still in shock about this... I just can't believe it. I feel so sad for his wife and kids!!!

"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin Dead

Wow.


RIP

There's a very active thread in Other:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=476562

Whoops! My bad.... I figured with him being in movies and all, this would be the place to post it.

Mods, feel free to combine this with the other.

Ditto.

I'm totally shocked! Wasn't he wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) while filming this documentary to prevent such an fatal accident from occuring?

Since he's dead, my guess would be:

No.

Krikey!

Considering that only two people on record have died of this down under, It wouldn't be some high risk danger move.

This is a freak accident even for Steve Irwin's line of duty.

Crikey

Dam a Stingray. Arent the barbs on those long like a long knife when used as a weapon. Crazy. Messed up he had no chance. His heart was punctured on impact.

Yes! This may be true, considering Steve Irwin's profession. Being precautious when performing such dangerous task, your safety should always be top priority, regardless what the level of risk may be. Anything is possible, and unpredictable, especially when concerning underwater species. This appears to be a case of negligence on the producers behalf, which they obliviously did not mandate a rule of requirement for Mr. Irwin to wear PPE, during the filming of this project for his own protection. Such a prevention, may have saved his life.

Seriously, all the times I've watched Steve do water stuff he was wearing his khaki shorts outfit with breathing gear. I always wondered why he did that.

Let me repeat. prior to this, Australia had only ONE death by stingray/manta ray in their history. This is like saying Jay Leno should wear a full fledge rubber suit every night because he is working under some lights that run on huge amounts of electrical current. Not doing so would be neglect on the producers part! FOR SHAME!!

Such prevention wasn't thought so because as the police report, THIS WAS A FREAK ACCIDENT. You really shouldn't be prepared for freak accidents. This is like wearing a hard hard while walking down the street incase the very unlikely case that a piano falls on your head.

Freak accidents like this just really can't be expected to happen. It's tragic that it occured but look at his track record. This man should have been dead a long time ago considering the things he has done.

Like i've stated before, anything can happen unexpectedly. With all been said, would you allow yourself to be in close contact with a deadly, venomous parasite when being provoked, that can result in a fatal accident, without being protected? nothing should be taken for granted, no matter what.

And like I said, you might as well walk out everyday in your daily life wearing a flak jacket for any random potential of being shot, a helmet in case some large objects fall on you when you take the chance of walking around an area with anything above your head.

Your "warning" is also made moot when you consider the fact that he did not see this coming at all because he didn't even know their was a stingray below him. He was diving near the bottom and the stingray, who was hidden, felt he was being attacked and by the small chance, the stinger went through his heart.

Lets put it this way, your suggestion should also be on the terms of suggesting that someone walking in a park should wear a protective face gear because who knows when a dog will randomly fly out of the bushes and bite your face off.

Yeah, stupid impractical advice, wouldn't you say?

All of those were just a waste of words. Were not speaking of pianos, dogs, goldfish, cats, birdd, cows, bats, guppies, rats, hamsters, or whatever else you may come up with. This accident could have been avoided if he was wearing PPE...Case close!
By the way, your the one who's appearing to be stupid, and impractical, not me.

Ha ha ha ha. "CASE CLOSED!!1111". Your "He should have known" is such bullshit because of the whole freak accident label of what occured.

This is exactly like saying that any random driver doing daily runs should have been wearing nascar protective gear while driving to avoid the potential of crashing and burning to death in an accident.

The park statement still stands, why don't people have chainmail under their cloths while walking in the park? I mean, you never know when a rabid squirrel will jump out of the tree feeling threatened and bite them.

It was a FREAK ACCIDENT. They call them that for a specific reason. They are pretty much out of no where and by some small chance, the sting went through his rib cage. That also goes without saying, even with PPE gear, who knows if the stinger went through his front or his back. Hell, even getting the stinger in the head would have killed him. So should he have been wearing a full head piece?

You can't make a statement that he would have been safe with one piece of eqiupment because as stated.. FREAK ACCIDENT.

I'm not the one suggesting that he should have expected a FREAK ACCIDENT to occur. Not sure how many times you go out wearing a flak jacket if you are going to a bank.. Just incase a bank robbery occurs. But this sort of thing happens even less than that.

You are a big JOKE. Your future imbecilic replies on this thread will be completely ignored. I refuse to reduce myself to your level.

Swimming is dangerous? Perhaps oxygen tanks should be mandated too!

Public Service Announcement: Make sure you are properly grounded when posting on the interweb.

I think it's time I dusted my furniture. Better put on my full haz-mat suit and order an evacuation of the area, just in case there's some kind of dangerous microbe hidden somewhere in my living room.

irwin wasn't filming a documentary about stingrays. apparently they were just in the area.

it really was a random thing.

i would say if he knew he was going to be dealing with them, it'd make sense to wear something protective i suppose. but you might as well put him in a shark cage, because you never know ...

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=476562

SINGLE104, personal attacks are against forum rules. In the future, please avoid making insulting comments like this.