Steve Irwin Dies...
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- cosmo0
I am going to miss him.
a legend passed away today
- ants0
my inlaws have known him since he was a kid - he's done a whole lot for Queensland - death sure does suck.
- zerofour0
got to miss his show....
- kyl30
I can personally attest to the pain and agony of a sting ray attack. I was walking in about 6 inches of water when I experienced the most mind numbing pain in my life. It felt like someone took a large spike and sledgehammered it into the top of my foot then turned on an electric shock treatment for the next three hours.
It didn't help that we were about 8 hours any from anything in mid Baja. Surely if I had been stung in the heart I would have died.
RIP
- toe_knee0
crikey...
:(
- KuzII0
haha, what a dumbass!
- toe_knee0
guy did so much to help us understand the more undesirable creatures.
Stingrays are generally dangerous or aggressive, must've been a freak acident
- KuzII0
woops, wrong thread.
- foreverwhatever0
i wonder if he tried to jam his thumb up its butt..
- foreverwhatever0
seriously though, i cant believe he died. i loved that guy
- arthur0
Talk about someone who had an unbridled enthusiasm for his work. He seemed to love what he did. What a personality.
My condolences to his wife and two young children.
- kyl30
Good, I was about to open a can of woopass
;)
- embarko0
Apparently his wife is hiking down here in Tasmania.
R.I.P.
Hey forcetwelve, Steve has been surfing down Tassie. I heard that from Emo.
- digitalswarm0
Uh oh, Superficial quotes, now.
- k0na_an0k0
the symptoms of a stingray injury really make me not want to see the video. The last one might be why he died. it punctured his heart?!?
* Immediate and severe pain radiating up the limb and lasting up to 48 hours
* Swelling in the wounded area
* Bleeding from the wound
* Color change in the area of injury—first dusky blue, then red
* Sweating
* Low blood pressure
* Faintness, weakness, dizziness
* Salivation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
* Headache
* Shortness of breath
* Seizure
* Muscle cramps and pain, paralysis
* Heart rhythm irregularities
* Death, though rare, has been reported from a puncture of the heart or abdomen and from loss of blood.
- akoni0
sad.
- de4k0
sad loss, a guy with more passion than most.
I thought stingrays were placid creatures...?
ahh right thanks wiki
'Dasyatids do not attack aggressively, or even actively defend themselves. When threatened their primary reaction is to swim away. However, when they are attacked by predators or stepped on, the barbed stinger in their tail is mechanically whipped up, usually into the offending foot; it is also possible, although less likely, to be stung "accidentally" by brushing against the stinger. Contact with the stinger causes local trauma (from the cut itself), pain and swelling from the venom, and possible infection from parts of the stinger left in the wound, as well as from seawater entering the wound. It is possible for ray stings to be fatal if they sever major arteries in the chest or pelvic regions, or if the wounds are improperly treated. Their stingers are normally ineffective against their main predator, sharks.'
- prodigalslacker0
CRIKEY
- dopepope0
Very random and sad.
- forcetwelve0
sting rays kill lots of people each year.
embarko — that is weird to imagine him surfing. emo would have talked his ear off in the water!