“It was only when I panned the camera back that I saw Steve standing in a huge pool of blood that I realized something had gone wrong.”Īs it turned out, the jagged barb “went through his chest like a hot knife through butter,” Lyons revealed, adding that the reports reports that it had been pulled out while they were still underwater were false. “I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away and I didn’t know it had caused any damage,” Lyons told an Australian TV station. Lyons was filming Irwin for a special called “Ocean’s Deadliest,” and after eight days of filming crocodiles and other animals, the pair focused in on a ray - normally a very calm animal - which started to stab its tail rapidly and wildly.Īlso read: Discovery Sued Over Fatal Reality TV Helicopter Crash Justin Lyons, Irwin’s underwater photographer and best friend, has opened up about watching the famed “Crocodile Hunter” be killed by a stingray’s barb through the chest. Seven and a half years after his tragic underwater death, Steve Irwin’s final words have been revealed. 5, 2006, 12:33 AM PDT / Source: The Associated Press Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his last moments of life, officials said Tuesday, as.
