Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, killed

[Brooke]

RISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. He was 44.



The accident happened while Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on its Web site.

The paper and other Australian media reporting the death cited police or state government sources.

Telephone calls to Australia Zoo, Irwin's zoo in southern Queensland, were not immediately answered.

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_en_tv/obit_irwin_3)

[HighLighter]

I remember seeing the commercials he did for FedEx during the Olympics in Australia. How he actually let a snake bite him for the sake of the gag...

Strange (tragic).... absolutely strange. (Terrible loss for his wife and family!)

[Dave]

A sad loss to wildlife conservation as well as his family.

Longer article on The BBC news site : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5311298.stm

[MarcelSpijker]

I have seen him many times on tv and he was my favorite nature guy.

Pitty to lose somebody who is bringing nature to the attantion of us people.

[Unknown]

That's so sad. :( I used to love watching his show

[Dave]

Then they shold switch over to the BBC who pretend to know everything!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5314918.stm?ls

[burndog]

Crikey...I am still a bit depressed over this. I really did enjoy him and his show. I feel so bad for his wife, but especially for his two young kids. He was so young. It is certainly not fair, but life rarely is. At least it was fairly quick...I heard he was dead within a couple of minutes. Better than getting torn apart by a crocodile or dying slowly and painfully by some super poisonous snake.

He surely was a bit crazy, but loved around the world, and will be missed by many.

[Ez2bFish]

I was shocked when I heard the news. Of course I'm away on vacation and I saw something on tv and couldn't immediately figure out what happened or if he was dead or what....

Now, it's all pretty clear what happened. Really sad. :( The good ones seem to leave us too soon. I'll miss him for sure. He inspired so many people.

[MarcelSpijker]

Animal Planet (Netherlands) did put it on live tV, but thay made a mistake in a press release that it will be today! So a lot of people, including me, missed it.

So now ill try to see it sunday when there is a rerun.