NH
Yep, a totally unique experience!
Nick Harvey
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tillyoshea posted:
I didn't know it came in degrees, I thought it was rather more all-or-nothing.
Yep, a totally unique experience!
TT
Its a television forum, not a book of condolence. So I agree, the shows were not something I'd enjoyed much. But he seemed a decent enough guy. To die doing something you enjoy, isn't that how most people would like to go.
Jez posted:
Well this was bound to happen sooner or later, as a lot of people have said.
Didnt really like him to be honest and his shows were annoying
Didnt really like him to be honest and his shows were annoying
Its a television forum, not a book of condolence. So I agree, the shows were not something I'd enjoyed much. But he seemed a decent enough guy. To die doing something you enjoy, isn't that how most people would like to go.
BR
Interesting that ITV have already said they won't be showing the billed edition of "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries" on Sunday as a "mark of respect".
A bit early to make that call really - and normally you'd expect the opposite to be happening with a programme being put into the schedules as a "tribute".
A bit early to make that call really - and normally you'd expect the opposite to be happening with a programme being put into the schedules as a "tribute".
AP
Only on here could a thread about someone's death turn into bitching, pedantry and bickering!
NW
I took a look at Animal Planet earlier, they too were supposed to be showing The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, albeit today at 4.00pm, unsurprisingly it wasn't shown either.
I personally thought the man was a bit OTT and it was probably the risk with the job, but I echo that he died what was he was doing best.
Brekkie Boy posted:
Interesting that ITV have already said they won't be showing the billed edition of "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries" on Sunday as a "mark of respect".
A bit early to make that call really - and normally you'd expect the opposite to be happening with a programme being put into the schedules as a "tribute".
A bit early to make that call really - and normally you'd expect the opposite to be happening with a programme being put into the schedules as a "tribute".
I took a look at Animal Planet earlier, they too were supposed to be showing The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, albeit today at 4.00pm, unsurprisingly it wasn't shown either.
I personally thought the man was a bit OTT and it was probably the risk with the job, but I echo that he died what was he was doing best.
MH
Considering his line of work he's had a pretty good innings really. He took the risks and payed the price. Normally stingray are quite placid. What did he do to it to provoke the stingray to defend itself?
It's sad yes but i'm not surprised.
It's sad yes but i'm not surprised.
OV
This link should explain things a little better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin#Death
miss hellfire posted:
Considering his line of work he's had a pretty good innings really. He took the risks and payed the price. Normally stingray are quite placid. What did he do to it to provoke the stingray to defend itself?
This link should explain things a little better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin#Death
RS
Thanks Orry - I had tried to say much the same thing earlier based on australian media reports but certain people here were hellbent on going down the 'oh he must have provoked the fish' route. It's easy to jump to conclusions - alot of that going on on the forum here - but hey, whats new?
TV
Does anyone else want to say it, or shall I?
Makes you lose all faith, sometimes.
In fairness, there was always a likelihood that Steve would fall victim to his antics. Not quite how it happened in the event, rather a freak accident which I doubt even Steve could have prepared himself for.
Greggybaby UK posted:
Jenny posted:
Well if you're daft enough to spend your life around dangerous animals then you're rather asking for it.
Does anyone else want to say it, or shall I?
Makes you lose all faith, sometimes.
In fairness, there was always a likelihood that Steve would fall victim to his antics. Not quite how it happened in the event, rather a freak accident which I doubt even Steve could have prepared himself for.
PT
Strange, when my mum told me this news first thing this morning all I could say was "Crikey!" - coinsidental choice of expression.
Whenever I think of Steve I'm always hearing him say "Look at those komodo dragons!" from one of the few highly entertaining programmes he did when he first came to fame in the UK.
According to my local news, he visited the local zoos near where I live a few years ago and apparently zookeepers were doing their nut trying to stop him from jumping in with the Gorillas etc. Probably an untrue story but how I'd loved to have seen that.
It would be nice if perhaps ITV did a tribute to him sometime - i.e. a collection of his best documentaries.
Anyway, a sad loss.
Whenever I think of Steve I'm always hearing him say "Look at those komodo dragons!" from one of the few highly entertaining programmes he did when he first came to fame in the UK.
According to my local news, he visited the local zoos near where I live a few years ago and apparently zookeepers were doing their nut trying to stop him from jumping in with the Gorillas etc. Probably an untrue story but how I'd loved to have seen that.
It would be nice if perhaps ITV did a tribute to him sometime - i.e. a collection of his best documentaries.
Anyway, a sad loss.
RS
This from Tuesdays aussie paper The Herald Sun.:
HERALD SUN:
FATALLY injured by a stingray, Steve Irwin pulled its barb out of his chest before losing consciousness, dramatic footage of his last moments reveals.
Friend John Stainton said the footage of the stingray attack which took the life of the Crocodile Hunter on the Great Barrier Reef yesterday was "shocking".
Mr Irwin, 44, died after the stingray barb punctured his chest while snorkelling off Port Douglas, in far north Queensland, yesterday.
A cameraman captured the incident during filming for Irwin's new project with daughter Bindi, eight, that was to debut in the United States next year.
"I did see the footage and it's shocking," Mr Stainton said today in Cairns.
"It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die ... and it's terrible."
Mr Stainton, also a producer and director of Irwin's popular television shows, said the footage showed Mr Irwin pulling the barb out of his chest before losing consciousness.
"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone.
"That was it. The cameraman had to shut down."
So...doesn't sound like he was doing any fish prodding to me....
HERALD SUN:
FATALLY injured by a stingray, Steve Irwin pulled its barb out of his chest before losing consciousness, dramatic footage of his last moments reveals.
Friend John Stainton said the footage of the stingray attack which took the life of the Crocodile Hunter on the Great Barrier Reef yesterday was "shocking".
Mr Irwin, 44, died after the stingray barb punctured his chest while snorkelling off Port Douglas, in far north Queensland, yesterday.
A cameraman captured the incident during filming for Irwin's new project with daughter Bindi, eight, that was to debut in the United States next year.
"I did see the footage and it's shocking," Mr Stainton said today in Cairns.
"It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die ... and it's terrible."
Mr Stainton, also a producer and director of Irwin's popular television shows, said the footage showed Mr Irwin pulling the barb out of his chest before losing consciousness.
"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone.
"That was it. The cameraman had to shut down."
So...doesn't sound like he was doing any fish prodding to me....