In general, Australian laws do not have to be followed, the main thing is to communicate this in small print. He was only afraid of parrots. How Steve Irwin died as a crocodile hunter.
Many people thought he was crazy. What normal person would want to spend their honeymoon teaching their wife how to catch crocodiles? Or feed a chicken to predatory reptiles while holding your newborn son in your other hand? However, the same people did not miss a single film by the intrepid Australian naturalist Steve Irwin. And he continued to energetically approach dangerous animals with his famous exclamation “Wow!”, until one of the predators turned out to be his last.
Young naturalist
This cannot be said to be an accident. At the age of six, little Stevie was given a real python. At the age of nine, the boy was already sent to feed crocodiles at the Irwin family's home nursery in Queensland.
After graduating from school, Steve decided to start a small business: he offered Australian farmers to get rid of unwanted crocodiles and other unpleasant creatures on their territories completely free of charge. The young man took the caught prey to his parents’ nursery, which soon grew to the title of “Australian Zoo in Queensland”.
When the young crocodile hunter turned 29 years old, his parents decided to retire and handed the zoo over to their son. Literally a year later, the owner met his fate among his visitors, who came to him in the form of a girl named Terry. The girl assured that she was not afraid of crocodiles, so Steve, without hesitation, married her. Terry had a surprise in store for his honeymoon. The husband decided to show the girl the wonderful places where he spent his youth - the crocodile swamps of Australia. Joint crocodiles fishing was provided as additional entertainment.
To avoid getting bored on the way, the newlyweds took their friend, director John Stainton, with them. He was so amused by Steve's honeymoon idea that he decided to make a documentary about it.
Soon after his return, it became clear that Stainton had made the right decision. His road footage was edited into the first series of the famous "Crocodile Hunters", which were immediately purchased by the Discovery TV channel. Of course, the main figure of the film was the resilient Steve with his unceremonious manner of communication, Australian accent and signature cry of “Wow!”, which he emitted when rushing towards especially dangerous predatory creatures. By the way, despite the image of an inveterate “hunter,” Steve never even killed cannibal crocodiles. He only observed the animals and moved them from populated areas, where they could harm people, to the most remote corners of the swamps.
The Crocodile Hunters made Irwin an international television star. This can be judged by the fact that he was invited by such “celebrity indicators” as Larry King and Oprah Winfrey. By the way, it was on the Larry King show that Steve admitted that of all living creatures he is afraid only of parrots. Too often they treacherously bit him during communication. The famous Irwin was even invited to play himself in the film "Doctor Dolittle 2".
Dangerous habits
However, even after Steve proved to the whole world that he knew how to handle predators, many believed that the crazy Australian was going too far.
For the first time, the presenter began to be reproached for being too careless when he made a film about the inhabitants of Antarctica. Animal activists were shocked by the episode during which Steve strolls carefree among seals and penguins. The Greens felt that the presenter was disturbing the integrity of the Antarctic fauna with his familiar touches. But how can you explain what familiarity is to a person who was dragging a crocodile by the tail? In this case, ordinary viewers were certainly on Irwin's side.
The second time, Steve still made even his most loyal fans horrified. This happened when he decided to introduce the exciting craft of crocodile taming to his son. The extravagant presenter began to act without delaying matters. Shortly after little Bob was born, he carried him out to the crocodile pool during a show at his zoo. To the groans of the audience, dad fed his green pets chicken carcasses with one hand, holding an interested baby in the other hand.
Immediately after this, the local and world press erupted in protests from baby advocates and, oddly enough, animal rights activists. Everyone believed that Steve acted completely irresponsibly, so it was time to deprive him of parental rights. The police even came to the TV presenter’s house, apparently to make sure that there was no crocodile sitting in the bathtub, which the crazy dad was feeding with babies. However, no threat to little Bob’s life was found, so the strange family was left alone.
Life continued to be good for the carefree animal lover. Together with his wife and two children, he continued to run his own zoo and make his dangerous films. However, the popularity of dangerous spectacles is due to the fact that the viewer subconsciously waits for the handler to make a mistake. Sometimes this actually happens.
On September 4 at 11 am, Steve Irwin went scuba diving to film electric stingrays off the Great Barrier Reef. He was collecting material for his next film, “Deadly Creatures of the Ocean.” The presenter had already gone down to the stingrays many times. In principle, this predator is rarely truly dangerous to humans: only two cases of deaths of tourists stung by stingrays have been recorded off the coast of Australia.
But apparently Steve teased his death too often. One of the fish attacked the leader while he was above it. The stingray raised its tail with an electric sting at the end and slammed it into Steve's chest. The sting hit exactly - the naturalist’s heart stopped even before anyone from his team had time to react.
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Steve Irwin is a very popular Australian naturalist and television journalist; He is best known as the creator of numerous films about wildlife, in particular about crocodiles - “The Crocodile Hunter”, “Crok Files”, “The Crocodile Hunter Diaries”. Founder of the Australia Zoo in Queensland.
Steve Irwin was born in 1962 in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, into the family of naturalists Bob and Lyn Irwin. He grew up on a farm in Queensland, where his parents raised reptiles. Steve helped his parents from an early age, feeding and caring for the crocodiles. After graduating from Caloundra State High School, he went to Northern Queensland, where he caught crocodiles that posed a real danger to people. It is curious that Steve’s work was practically unpaid, and his altruism was explained by his love for these animals, which he already understood, and also by the fact that he left the caught individuals in his park.
Irwin gained fame with his participation in a national program for the humane treatment of crocodiles, or rather, their movement without the use of tranquilizers. Steve has repeatedly promoted this same position on his TV show “Croc Files.” Television brought Steve Irwin worldwide popularity and fame - the series “Crocodile Hunter”, which started in 1997, turned out to be “top”. In this documentary series, Steve managed to present himself as a fearless enthusiastic explorer, and the tape was broadcast worldwide on the Discovery Channel with great success. The young naturalist's fame extended beyond Australia - Steve turned out to be very popular in the USA.
Then, for his services to popularizing Australia in cinema and his contribution to the tourism industry of the Green Continent, Irwin b
was awarded. In addition, he was noted for his enormous contribution to the creation and development of the Australia Zoo.
Steve Irwin sincerely enjoyed his work - despite the fact that he was doing what he loved most, his name became a trademark, and interest in the films with his participation remained unchanged. Steve repeatedly took risks, sometimes his life literally hung by a thread - he had several wounds, but he was never seriously injured. He always performed any tricks himself, sometimes approaching the animals at a critically close distance.
It is noteworthy that Steve's tricks sometimes bordered on the usual understanding of what is permitted. So, on January 2, 2004, during a performance at the Queensland Zoo, he held his one-month-old son with one hand while holding out a piece of chicken to the crocodile with the other. At the same time, the child was only a meter from the predator’s mouth. And when the predator swallowed the thrown piece, Irwin said to his son: “Good boy, Bob!” Dozens of people then turned to the hotline of the Children's Protection Society with a call to deal with the “crazy” parent.
Irwin himself later said that throughout the show he kept the situation under control, and probably knew that his child was not in danger. However, the public then had a different opinion.
In 1992, Steve married Terri Raines, also a wildlife researcher. Terry participated in all films with her husband. By the way, his film "The Hunter
"Okodilov" begins with filming Steve and Terry's honeymoon - they were just engaged in catching crocodiles. In July 1998, the family had a daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin. Son Robert (Robert Clarence "Bob" Irwin) was born in December 2003 It was Bob who became a participant in the show, which caused a wave of outrage.
It is curious that while crocodiles and other dangerous predators were very favorable to Steve, parrots strongly disliked him, becoming the only representatives of the animal world with whom he had no contact. "I don't know what they have against me, but they always try to bite me," Irwin said in an interview.
Steve Irwin died on September 4, 2006, off the Great Barrier Reef, while working on another documentary about animals. The picture with the fatal title for Irwin “Ocean's Deadliest" (Deadly dangerous creatures of the ocean" tragically put an end to his life. Steve was hit in the chest by a spike-tailed stingray, this blow definitely hit the heart. The tragedy of the situation was that usually the bite of this The stingray is not fatal, it was the hit in the heart that was fatal. Steve Irwin's heart stopped instantly, even before the team members had time to react. According to statistics, only two cases of death of people stung by stingrays have been recorded off the coast of Australia.
It is known that all copies of the video recording of Irwin’s death were deliberately destroyed for safety; the recording itself was transferred to his wife Terry
On September 4, 2006, the famous Australian naturalist and TV presenter of a popular animal program, Steve Irwin, died from an accident. During the filming of another episode about stingrays, the fish unexpectedly attacked the zoologist and hit him with its poisonous tail right in the heart.
Steve Irwin was born on February 22, 1962 in Australia. His parents ran their own reptile park, and the boy became interested in wildlife from childhood. He especially loved feeding and catching crocodiles. With age, children's fun grew into a profession. Steve continued the work of his parents and took control of the management of the park. In 1991, he released his television show The Crocodile Hunter, which instantly attracted the attention of viewers around the world. In addition to television shows, he has recorded a large number of documentaries about Australian wildlife, for which he has received many awards and accolades. Steve Irwin's special achievement was the creation of the world famous Australia Zoo.
Steve was repeatedly wounded and was literally hanging on the brink of death. While hunting crocodiles, the animals attacked Irwin more than once and left serious wounds. Thus, a naturalist spent a long time treating his arm and tendons after he tried to save one of the reptiles stuck in a concrete pipe. Despite all the dangers that awaited Steve during his work, his wife Terri always supported her husband. Together with him, she created the Australia Zoo bit by bit and was engaged in the conservation and breeding of animals.
On September 4, 2006, Steve went to the Barrier Reef to film another episode of a program dedicated to “deadly dangerous creatures of the ocean” and was going to introduce viewers to stingrays. These fish lead a bottom-dwelling lifestyle and rarely swim close to the shore and tourists. This type of stingray is poisonous. However, they rarely attack people and even less often deliver a fatal blow. The filming went well, the cameraman got good shots, and the group was about to call it a day when suddenly one of the fish swam close to Irwin. The naturalist stood above her and began to watch carefully. However, the stingray behaved in an unexpected way and sharply hit Steve right in the chest with a poisonous host. The blow hit the zoologist right in the heart, causing him to immediately die. All this time, the cameraman continued to film, and the last seconds of Steve's life were captured on film. Terry's wife, who was grieving the death of her husband, decided to get rid of these shots forever. The Australian authorities offered to hold the naturalist's funeral at the state level, but relatives refused, saying that there was no need for this. On September 9, Steve Irwin was buried at the Australian Zoo, but the zoologist's grave is closed to visitors.
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“If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you’re too correct and your life is too boring.”
(Steve Irwin)
September 2012 marks six years since Steve Irwin no longer in this world. Steve's life was cut short at the age of 44 due to an absurd accident that occurred on the set of another series about wildlife...
Stephen Robert Irwin born on February 22, 1962, to naturalists Lyn and Bob Irwin. Steve grew up on his parents' reptile farm in Queensland, helping Lyn and Bob care for the farm's inhabitants from his childhood. The first step on the path to fame was his participation in a government program to humanely relocate crocodiles without the use of tranquilizers. The idea of humane treatment of crocodiles Steve Irwin defended it on his TV show. It was television that brought him worldwide fame. Even when dealing with the most poisonous snakes in the world Steve Irwin never used violence.
Steve became a popular Australian naturalist, television journalist and author of numerous wildlife films such as The Crocodile Hunter ( "Crocodile Hunter"), TV show "Crok Files", "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries" ( "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries"). Owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.
Steve Irwin started out as a child catching crocodiles around Queensland for his parents' reptile park. Since 1991, Steve Irwin continued the family business and soon created the first episodes of the film "Crocodile Hunter"(Crocodile Hunter), which has become popular all over the world. This year Irwin was honored for his contribution to the Australian tourism industry. The award recognized Irwin's achievements in popularizing the Green Continent in documentaries about wildlife and the creation of the Australia Zoo.
Repeatedly Irwin been in situations where his life literally hung by a thread. He had a large number of injuries received from contact with animals.As I told myself Steve Irwin, the first time he was seriously injured was in the early 90s when he dived from the bow of a boat onto a crocodile. The crocodile was sitting on a rock, which Irwin hit with his shoulder, and the stone smashed him to the bone. The bone cut through all the important muscles, ligaments and tendons.
Another time, in East Timor, he was rescuing a crocodile that was trapped in a concrete pipe and there was no way to get it out. So Irwin dived inside with the animal. The crocodile grabbed him in a death grip, as a result the same arm was ripped open again, and this time the tendon was torn.
One day, Irwin was hit on the head by a crocodile he caught underwater. Then his knees and shins were cut while he was riding a 4-metre crocodile. Another time, on the way to filming, he had to save a kangaroo on the side of the road. When he approached the animal, the kangaroo hit him and cut his lip in half.
Steve captivated me from the very first frames of the series "Crocodile Hunter", which once aired on the TNT channel. I never missed a single episode and waited for the next one with great anticipation. This man with magnificent cheerful charisma and genuine positivity, a lively smile, mischievous freckles and funny jokes, he skillfully talked about the wildlife of Australia, kissed the noses and tops of poisonous lizards, tickled dangerous spiders, played with turtles, teased snakes and, of course, brilliantly tamed crocodiles. In Australia he had no equal in taming these dangerous reptiles.
For the first time the program "Crocodile Hunter" aired in 1992. Steve managed to turn his image as a fearless and enthusiastic lover of studying fauna up close into a trademark, and his series was broadcast with great success around the world on the channel Discovery.
In 1992 Steve married Terry Baines, who, like him, was engaged in the study of wildlife. On all TV shows Terry was directly involved along with her husband. His film "Crocodile Hunter", which begins with Steve and Terry's honeymoon (during which they go crocodile fishing), has been shown in more than 120 countries. Terry Irwin She was always by his side and helped her husband in all his reckless ideas, assisting him on the set.
They had two children and even then Terry I was with my children and my husband. This is true love when the whole family is together.
And this photo once caused a wave of discontent in the media; Steve even received a complaint to the court when he appeared with his barely born son at his next crocodile show. It is worth noting that Irwin’s tricks were sometimes beyond human understanding. In 2004, during a show at the Queensland Zoo, he held his one-month-old son just meters from the jaws of a predator. During the broadcast, dozens of people called the Children's Welfare Society hotline. To the horror of the audience Steve Irwin held his one-month-old son Robert with one hand, and with the other waved a piece of chicken in front of the mouth of a four-meter crocodile. And when the meat disappeared in the teeth of the predator, Irwin turned to his son and said: "Good boy, Bob!" Myself Irwin subsequently he said that he constantly kept the situation under control, and nothing threatened his child.
On the set of the programs there were many funny situations, as well as life-threatening ones. Steve was repeatedly bitten by snakes, stung by scorpions, he was injured by his beloved crocodiles, but this inexhaustibly energetic man, who loved life so much, simply laughed in the face of danger, because he loved all these living creatures and enjoyed communicating with them again and again.
Steve Irwin died absurdly September 4, 2006 years on the set of another TV show, receiving a fatal blow to the heart from a stingray. A national funeral was held on the occasion of his death, and the day of his death is considered a national day of mourning in Australia.
U Steve Irwin survived by two children, Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence. His wife Terry assisted him on the set.
At 11 am Steve Irwin went scuba diving to film electric stingrays off the Great Barrier Reef. He was collecting material for his next film "Deadly Creatures of the Ocean". The presenter had already gone down to the stingrays many times. In principle, this predator is rarely truly dangerous to humans: only two cases of deaths of tourists stung by stingrays have been recorded off the coast of Australia.But apparently Steve teased his death too often. One of the fish attacked the leader while he was above it. The stingray raised its tail with a poisonous sting at the end and slammed it into Steve's chest. The sting hit exactly - the naturalist’s heart stopped even before anyone from his team had time to react.
Producer and director John Stainton program said he had viewed the tape of Irwin's final moments,and these images shocked him. “It was very difficult to watch because you watch someone die... and it’s terrible,” - he admitted. “He can be seen rising above the stingray, whose tail flew up and pierced his chest. He pulled out the spike, and a minute laterhe was gone. That's all. The cameraman had to stop filming.»
"There was no blood in the water, it was not very clear... Something happened to this animal that made him buck, and Steve was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If he had been hit in another place, we would have didn't talk about the tragedy", - said Peter West, the owner of the ship on which the film crew sailed. The operator and another crew member pulled Irwin out of the water, placed him on an inflatable boat and transported him to the support vessel. Team members said he was virtually unconscious after being injected with a stingray and died during transport. John Stainton added that Irwin did not provoke the stingray, but was simply floating above it when he was attacked.
Mark Mikan, a researcher at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, says that while stingray spines may be coated in toxic mucus, it is the ruptured blood vessels that cause most of the damage. "The spines have very fine teeth, like the heads of arrows. When the stingray removes the spine from the victim, the teeth tear the flesh. It's like being stabbed with a serrated knife.", he says.Toxicologist Chris Winder from the University of New South Wales says that stingray venom acts very slowly. Injured people sometimes don't even realize that toxins are gradually killing their tissue. "If Steve Irwin died so quickly, it wasn't toxins.", - speaks Winder.
Film of fatal attack handed to Queensland Police, Premier Peter Beatty said that Irwin will be buried with state honors if his family so desires. Irwin's relatives and friends have repeatedly stated that they will do everything possible to ensure that this recording is not replicated inInternet and insisted on its destruction. However, to protect the tragic photographs of the death of a naturalist from prying eyes, the deathwhich is already being compared to the death of Princess Diana, failed...
Interesting Facts
In 2009, a rare mountain tropical snail was named in Irwin's honor - Crikey steveirwini Stanisic, 2009.
After the death of her husband, his wife - Terry Irwin dedicated a book to her memories of their life together: "Steve and Me"
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Steve Irwin is a famous “crocodile hunter” not only in Australia, but throughout the world,TV journalist and TV presenter, actor, naturalist, expert and wild animal lover. MainIrwin's professional projects were films and television shows about dangerous animals. Despiteconstant contact with wild animals, often with show elements during filming, Steve Irwin always kept situations under control and understood the degree of risk. All tricks with dangerous animals were based on deep knowledge of their behavior and extensive experience in communicating with them. But one day the irreparable happened: the filming of a documentary about the underwater world was interrupted due to death of Steve Irwin.
Family, childhood and early career
The future naturalist was born in Australia in 1962. Parents Lyn and Bob Irwin were naturalists and owned a reptile and other animal farm in Queensland. Steve's love for nature and animals has been evident since childhood, when he, helping his parents care for farm animals, studied their behavior and habits, and also caught crocodiles in the local area for his parents' zoo.
The initial big step towards popularity was participation in the Australian government project, which promoted humane treatment of crocodiles and transportation of reptiles without the use of sedative medications. A few years later, Steve brought this idea to the public in his own television show, which appeared on screens in 1999 under the name “Croc Files.”
The naturalist gained worldwide fame after the TV series “The Crocodile Hunter,” in which he starred with his wife. Terri Baines, like Steve, studied wildlife and took part in all the TV projects with Steve Irwin. In 1992, after their wedding, Terry and Steve began filming the initial episodes of the film during their honeymoon and showed them catching crocodiles. The film was seen on the Discovery Channel by millions of people in 120 countries.
Favorite thing in life that involves danger
Few people manage to earn big money by doing what they love, doing something interesting and having great fun. Steve Irwin was lucky, he was one of those people. He realized his passion and fascination for wild animals in film projects, telling people fascinating stories of the animal world. Continuing the business of his parents, who founded Australia Zoo in the small town of Birswa, Steve made great efforts to save and protect numerous animals. With a wife and two children, they were the protagonists of stories about a variety of animals from the wild. In many films, he appears as a fearless conqueror of predatory and dangerous animals, performing mind-blowing, life-threatening stunts. Despite his knowledge, experience and dexterity, Steve was seriously injured several times during filming due to contact with animals. But that couldn't stop him. And, unfortunately, it could not protect us from the tragedy that happened during the filming of the TV show “The Most Dangerous Animals of the Ocean.”
How did Steve Irwin die?
In early September 2006, Steve and a film crew were filming material for a new film about marine life off the coast of Australia near the Great Barrier Reef. On September 4th, having a free day, Steve decided to take the opportunity to film a short story about stingrays for his daughter’s TV show, which was called “Bindi the Jungle Girl.” It was impossible to imagine that this decision would lead to a deadly tragedy.
Sea stingrays rarely pose a danger to people, and the naturalist has photographed these predators several times before. Having scuba dived to the bottom with cameraman Justin Lyons, Steve Irwin got quite close to the animal, finding himself on top of it. It is unknown what could have provoked the huge spiny-tailed stingray into aggressive behavior; perhaps the intrusive presence of two scuba divers seemed dangerous to him and he decided to attack first. According to the stories of Steve’s friend, a cameraman who swam behind him and filmed everything, the stingray suddenly raised its tail and within a few seconds delivered numerous blows with a poisonous spike on its tail directly into Stephen’s chest.
After Justin lifted the TV presenter aboard the yacht, it turned out that the stingray hit his sting right in the heart, which became cause of death of Steve Irwin . Unfortunately, toxicologist Dr. Seymour, who collaborated with the TV presenter, who soon arrived at the scene of the tragedy, could not help him, however, neither could the doctors. In their opinion, if the stingray’s spike had struck any other part of the body, Irwin would still have had a chance to escape.
Farewell and memory
The Queensland authorities wanted to bury the famous and beloved TV presenter with honors at the state level. But the relatives and friends of the deceased abandoned this idea. On September 9, a private farewell ceremony took place and Steve Irwin’s body was interred on the grounds of the zoo, where he worked for many years. His grave is not accessible to the public. The father of the famous naturalist explained this by saying that Steve wanted people to remember him as a simple guy.
Irvine's fans were shocked by the death of the 44-year-old TV presenter. They began to take revenge for his death. In the months following the tragedy, more than a dozen spiny-tailed rays were killed off the Australian coast.
In 2007, to perpetuate the memory of his colleague, a new Dutch ship belonging to the Nature Conservation Society was named in honor of Steve Irwin, which to this day sails with scientific expeditions.
