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I'am REALLY going to miss Steve What will happen to Australia Zoo???

I just heard about it about a half hour ago. Sad, that is. Thy memory shall not be forgotten, Steve. You will be missed. *Bows head*

Yah it is very sad. here are some links explaining his death

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf ... xml&coll=1

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/pu ... 8161.shtml

It's so sad i'm wanting to cry so bad right now.

He died from getting stung in the chest by a string ray... it puntured his heart.....

I heard about that today too, and it dearly devistated me. I cant believe hes dead... But his memory will live on in the hearts of people for generations to come....

Good-bye Steve Irwin...


--MH

Aw...I used to love that show..but I always wondered when something like that would happened..he does some dangerous things on that show..but it was amusing..Well atleast he died doing something he loved...I guess all I can say is R.I.P Steve

*cries* yeah I heard this right when I woke up. at firts I thought i was hearing things cuase hes been through so much. You think nothing bad could have happened to him. I was a huge fan of his & when I heard he had died I litteraly died myself. And I thought it was hard to hear that sewy (steves dog) died....

But what's so hard to believe is that nobody has ever died from a sting-ray injury. It was just a freak accident. Poor Steve. His kids are only 8 and 3. Just think how the kids and Terri must be feeling. He was younger than my dad! I watch his show all the time, and he was the one who inspired me to love animals and go out there and save them. It's been my lifelong dream to work with animals with the passion that he had for them. When I die, I want it to be around animals, and because of an animal, that way I died with and for my passion.

I heard about it like at 7 this morning...I was DEVISTATED actually...almost started to cry...he was great!

I just found this report on his death, read it if you like.

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time.
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Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword “Crikey!” in his television program “Crocodile Hunter.” First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity.
He rode his image into a feature film, 2002’s “The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course” and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction.
“The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet,” Stainton told reporters in Cairns. “He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, ’Crocs Rule!”’
'A huge loss to Australia'
Prime Minister John Howard, who hand-picked Irwin to attend a gala barbecue to honor President Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was “shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin’s sudden, untimely and freakish death.”
“It’s a huge loss to Australia,” Howard told reporters. “He was a wonderful character. He was a passionate environmentalist. He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people.”
Irwin, who made a trademark of hovering dangerously close to untethered crocodiles and leaping on their backs, spoke in rapid-fire bursts with a thick Australian accent and was almost never seen without his uniform of khaki shorts and shirt and heavy boots.
His ebullience was infectious and Australian officials sought him out for photo opportunities and to promote Australia internationally.
Irwin’s public image was dented, however, in 2004 when he caused an uproar by holding his infant son in one arm while feeding large crocodiles inside a zoo pen. Irwin claimed at the time there was no danger to the child, and authorities declined to charge Irwin with violating safety regulations.
Later that year, he was accused of getting too close to penguins, a seal and humpback whales in Antarctica while making a documentary. Irwin denied any wrongdoing, and an Australian Environment Department investigation recommended no action be taken against him.
Stingrays have a serrated, toxin-loaded barb, or spine, on the top of their tail. The barb, which can be up to 10 inches long, flexes if a ray is frightened. Stings usually occur to people when they step on or swim too close to a ray and can be excruciatingly painful but are rarely fatal, said University of Queensland marine neuroscientist Shaun Collin.
'Extraordinarily bad luck'
Collin said he suspected Irwin died because the barb pierced under his ribcage and directly into his heart.
“It was extraordinarily bad luck. It’s not easy to get spined by a stingray and to be killed by one is very rare,” Collin said.
News of Irwin’s death spread quickly, and tributes flowed from all quarters of society.
At Australia Zoo at Beerwah, south Queensland, floral tributes were dropped at the entrance, where a huge fake crocodile gapes. Drivers honked their horns as they passed.
“Steve, from all God’s creatures, thank you. Rest in peace,” was written on a card with a bouquet of native flowers.
“We’re all very shocked. I don’t know what the zoo will do without him. He’s done so much for us, the environment and it’s a big loss,” said Paula Kelly, a local resident and volunteer at the zoo, after dropping off a wreath at the gate.
Stainton said Irwin’s American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.
The couple met when she went on vacation in Australia in 1991 and visited Irwin’s Australia Zoo; they were married six months later. Sometimes referred to as the “Crocodile Huntress,” she costarred on her husband’s television show and in his 2002 movie.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

he got hit in the chest with the barb of a stingray

Yeah...I heard about that. Tragic.
The news has really spread fast. He only died this morning, right? It's just really hard to believe that he died...Animal Planet will probably have a documentary for him or some kind of memorial.

Rest in peace, buddy. </3

I was hoping someone would bring this up. My dad woke me and Kiua up with that news this morning It's kinda funny in the ironic sence but it's also unrealistic and it hasn't fully hit me yet. It just feels weird for now. He was stung in the chest and it went through his skin and between his ribs and pierced his heart. Sorry to all squemish people....

i heard about it early this morning,it's sad me and my brother always watched his show on animal planet when we were little and always admired him for his love of animals like snakes,crocs,ect....may he rest in peace

I'm making a video for a tribute to him. Im mean, he's wrestled alligators, crocs, sharks. And he gets killed by a fish.