He said the "jagged barb" on the stingray's tail "went through his chest like hot butter". "It was only when I panned the camera back that I saw Steve standing in a huge pool of blood." "I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away and I didn't know it had caused any damage," he told TV viewers. The two men were filming the final scene of the day, Lyons said, when the stingray struck. He said that Irwin was not chasing or provoking the 2.4m-long stingray, and that he did not pull the barbed stingray tail out of his chest, as was initially reported.
In an interview with Australian TV channel Network Ten, the cameraman provided new details about the attack and contradicted some claims made at the time of the Crocodile Hunter star's death. He also revealed that Irwin's last words were "I'm dying". "I had the camera on, I thought this is going to be a great shot, and all of sudden propped on its front and started stabbing wildly, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds," Justin Lyons said today. Irwin was attacked by the ray while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef. Steve Irwin was survived by wife Terri, son Robert and daughter Bindi.THE cameraman working with Steve Irwin when he was killed by a stingray in 2006 has revealed details of the fatal attack, including the naturalist's final words, and told how he captured his last moments on film. The stingray attack and medical treatment were all captured on film, but have never been released.
They had finished filming their final shot when the 2.4 metre ray suddenly struck out.
Steve Irwin died while filming a documentary on the ocean’s deadliest creatures on the Gold Coast in 2006.Īccording to Steve's cameraman Justin Lyon, who witnessed the wildlife expert being fatally stabbed by a stingray hundreds of times in a few seconds, Irwin’s last words were "I’m dying". His comments, have allegedly left Steve Irwin’s wife Terri, ‘going through hell’. Speaking to RadarOnline, he said that the stingray tray effectively acted as a plug and the moment he removed it, he bled to death. Steve Irwin had died after a stingray barb pierced his heart.ĭr Gabe Mirkin, questioned the circumstances around the death of the 44-year-old presenter after viewing the footage of his final moments, Woman’s Day reported.Īccording to the doctor, the animal enthusiast could have been saved if he had not hastily pulled the stingray barb from his chest. Eleven years since the tragic death of Steve Irwin, a US doctor now makes an extraordinary claim that the crocodile hunter ‘didn’t have to die."
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