Call it ironic. I just blogged about snake this morning and now i found out that Steve Irwin just passed away.
News Excerpt from Newsday.com
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed
By BRIAN CASSEY
Associated Press Writer
September 4, 2006, 3:21 AM EDT
CAIRNS, Australia -- Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was killed by a stingray barb to the heart on Batt Reef, off the remote resort town of Port Douglas in northeastern Queensland state, his wildlife park Australia Zoo said in a statement.
Crew members aboard Irwin's 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 a short time later, the statement said.
The world has truly lost one of the more famous wildlife icon.
Steve Irwin,
I do not know you, but you touched my heart with your work with the wildlife.
May you rest in peace.
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