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Steve Irwin
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Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was a hero and part of his attraction to the young was his seeming invincibility in the face of death-defying acts.

His death while filming a documentary in Queensland has prompted child behavioural experts to warn parents to treat Steve's death as a serious issue for their children.

He was known throughout the world as a crocodile-wrestling big kid and not surprisingly Steve's death has had a devastating affect on Australian school children.

Psychologist Grant Brecht said parents and teachers will have to tread carefully when trying to help children comprehend what has happened to the Aussie superstar.

"Parents may find that children are waking up in the night having fears of dying or having fears of being attacked by snakes or crocodiles," he said.

"His passing will bring into being for them some of their own fallibility because they would have thought that he could live forever."

Tuesday, September 5, 2006; Posted 9:23 a.m.

BRISBANE, Australia (CNN) -- "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, the Australian naturalist killed by a stingray on Monday, was videotaped pulling a poisonous barb from his chest just before he died.

Irwin's manager John Stainton, who was among the television crew on the reef, said the accident was caught on videotape.

He described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible."

"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," Stainton said.

"That was it. The cameraman had to shut down (after that)," Stainton said. Stainton will talk more about the footage on "Larry King Live" tonight at 9 p.m. ET.

As fellow countrymen and fans from around the world mourned his death, it was announced that a state funeral for Irwin would be held if his family so chose, an Australian state premier said.

"We will honor Steve Irwin in whatever way his family wants," said Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, speaking to CNN affiliate Channel Seven.

" ... We will approach the family and we would obviously be keen to honor him in some sort of way from the Queensland Government point of view, from the state's point of view, but we would only do that with the family's approval."

For the past week, Irwin, 44, had been working on an underwater documentary at Batt Reef in the Great Barrier Reef off Port Douglas in Queensland state.

Bad weather for the past few days had made it impossible to proceed with a planned taping for the Animal Planet channel, so Irwin instead chose Monday to shoot "a couple of soft stories for a new TV show we're doing," Stainton said.

"He and the underwater cameraman went out to do some pieces on the reef and coral and stuff good for the kids' show and, unfortunately, he came out over the top of a stingray that was buried in the sand and the barb went up and hit him in the chest."

Rescuers put Irwin aboard his research vessel, Croc 1, and attempted to resuscitate him during the 30-minute dash to nearby Lowe Isle, where a medical helicopter was available to take him to a hospital, but the effort proved futile.

The barb had pierced his chest, hospital sources said. News reports say he went into cardiac arrest after he was stung. His body was flown to the city of Cairns.

Irwin was director of the Australian Zoo in Queensland. He is survived by his American-born wife, Terri, and their two children, Bindi Sue, 8, and Robert (Bob), 3.

Terri Irwin was told of her husband's death while on a walking tour in Tasmania, and returned Monday night to the Sunshine Coast with the children.

'There's always a risk'
"It's just one of these bizarre events that really make you take stock of your life," Animal Planet host Jeff Corwin told CNN. "The reality is, there's always a risk when you work with wildlife. You do your best to take precautions."

Fellow animal handler and conservationist Jack Hanna said, "It's a tragic thing. It's unbelievable, really. When you think of Steve Irwin, you think of people who are invincible."

Hanna agreed with Corwin that the accident underscores the danger of working with wild animals.

"Ninety-nine percent of the time, when someone is hurt by an animal, it is your fault," he said. "You have to be careful of that. You have to know what your limits are. What that animal is.

"People use the word dangerous and that sometimes is a word that's not fair to that animal because the animal has been given the defenses that God gave it, so you have to understand what all that is involved and if you understand that, hopefully nothing will happen."

Irwin's exuberant approach to nature conservation and the environment also won him a global following, and he and his wife -- whom he met when she was a visitor at the Australia Zoo, the wildlife park founded by his parents -- became well-known figures on international television.

TV viewers loved his outlandish stunts, even though one of them generated controversy.

Many viewers were upset with him two years ago when he held out his infant son as he was feeding a snapping crocodile at his zoo.

In 2003, Irwin spoke to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Australian Story television program about how he was perceived in his home country.

"When I see what's happened all over the world, they're looking at me as this very popular, wildlife warrior Australian bloke," he said. "And yet back here in my own country, some people find me a little bit embarrassing. You know, there's this -- they kind of cringe, you know, 'cause I'm coming out with 'crikey' and 'look at this beauty.'"

Fund may be established
Discovery Communications, which produces Animal Planet, said it was considering setting up a fund that would accept donations in Irwin's name to support wildlife protection, education, conservation, Irwin's zoo and the education of his children.

A sensory garden located outside the company's Silver Springs, Maryland, headquarters will be renamed in his honor, said Annie Howell, senior vice president of communications for Discovery Communications.

Animal Planet will air a tribute to Irwin at 6 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Maureen Smith, Animal Planet's executive vice president and general manager, said. The channel will continue to run Irwin's shows.

At the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, which has an exhibit where people can safely touch stingrays, marine biologist Ray Davis said stingray barbs are serrated, can reach 12 inches in length and are used as a defensive mechanism.

"The stingray swings its tail up over its back; the barb is then not really laying against the tail but comes out a bit and allows them to slash or jab to try and get the predator away from them."

Once the barb has pierced the skin, it injects venom, which can be excruciatingly painful, said the vice president of zoological operations, who said he was speaking from experience.

"It can be very crippling," he said.

But fish venom is heat-sensitive, and relief is almost immediate once the affected area is immersed in near-scalding water, he said.

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 north-eastern 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 programme 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 W. Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was “shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin’s sudden, untimely and freakish death”.

At Australia Zoo in Queensland, flowers were dropped at the entrance; drivers honked their horns as they passed.

Key events in irwin’s life

February 22, 1962: Stephen Robert Irwin born to Lyn and Bob Irwin near Melbourne in Australia’s southern Victoria state.

February 22, 1968: Irwin received a 3.6-metre-long (12-foot-long) scrub python for his 6th birthday, kicking off a lifelong fascination with reptiles.

1991: Irwin meets Terri Raines, a tourist from Eugene, Oregon, whom he marries six months later. The footage from their honeymoon becomes the first episode of The Crocodile Hunter, which airs in Australia.

2001: Irwin makes a cameo appearance in the Eddie Murphy film Dr Dolittle 2, in which he attempts to wrestle an alligator and loses an arm.

2002: Irwin releases his first feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

January 2004: Irwin provokes an international outcry after being filmed holding his 1-month-old son, Bob, while feeding a snapping crocodile.

June 2004: Irwin was investigated for a possible criminal breach of wildlife laws after allegedly clowning around with whales and penguins while filming a documentary in Antarctica. He was cleared of wrongdoing
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