Steve Irwin's, last words before death was revealed by his cameraman and best friend - Justin Lyons. The sole witness to the tragic death of Steve Irwin revealed the "Crocodile Hunter's" final moments of his tragic death after "hundreds" of fatal strikes by a "massive" stingray.
"I'm dying," was all the 44-year-old popular television host said after a surprise attack eight years ago by a stingray, cameraman Justin Lyons told the Australian talk show Studio Ten.
In what is being billed as a world exclusive interview, the underwater cameraman told Australia's Studio 10 that some of the details that were initially made public about Irwin’s death were incorrect.
What happened exactly in the Sea?
The two were in Australia's Great Barrier Reef in September 2006 to shoot a nature documentary when they found a "massive, 8-foot-wide stingray," Lyons said.
According to Lyons' account, he and the 44-year-old Irwin were about eight days into filming a series called "Ocean’s Deadliest" when they found themselves in chest-deep water near Queensland, Australia. They came across a "massive" 8-foot-wide stingray. Despite their impressive size, stingrays are normally docile creatures that do not pose a threat.
He added: ‘He had about a two-inch injury over his heart with blood-fluid coming out of it. He was in extraordinary pain. [The stingrays] have got venom on their barb, so I’m sure it was excruciatingly painful.
“Stingrays are normally very calm, if they don’t want you to be near them, they’ll swim away,” Lyons told hosts Jessica Rowe and Ita Buttrose.Lyons told the presenter that the stingray had probably mistaken Irwin’s shadow for a tiger shark, which is the animal’s biggest natural predators.
“I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away I didn’t even know it had caused any damage. It wasn’t until I panned the camera back and Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood that I realized something was wrong.”
“The stingray barb was a blade of about a foot extending out of the tail. Steve didn’t pull it out; it’s a jagged, sharp barb and it went through Steve’s chest like a hot knife through butter.”
What are Steve Irwin's last words to his cameraman?
“He just sort of calmly looked up at me and said, ‘I’m dying’. And that was the last thing he said,” he continued.‘I don't know what's happened to it and I hope it would never see the light of day,’ Lyons said.
Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane.
Now, Irwin's elder Daughter Bindi Irwin has expressed the desire to continue her father's work and announced last week that she will partnering with Sea world.
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