Well unless you’ve fallen off of the planet or I haven’t talked you, you might have not heard that today Steve Irwin, aka the Crocodile Hunter, has died. This morning I was checking my email and a friend had sent me a link. Here is a link on cnn.
This truly is a tragic day. He had a wife and two children and was a strong proponent for the environment and the wildlife in it. I am very sad now that when I was in Brisbane I never made it to his zoo.
Steve apparently was swimming on the Great Barrier Reef filming a new show when he swam over a bull ray. Apparently the ray felt cornered and lashed out in a defensive move and happened to strike Steve in the middle chest where it poked a hole in his heart killing him almost immediately.
Being a scuba diver I have seen bull rays before and on a dive in Sydney I saw a big one. In the gallery is a picture of me and a bull ray. The picture isn’t that great but you can see the tail of ray up near my head and the dark grey object to the left of me is the rest of the ray, it was about 6′-0″ across in wing span.
I’m kind of more taken aback by this event today than I thought I would. My thoughts are for Steve’s family and his friends. It truly is a sad sad sad day, the world has a good person.
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