He assumes the animal mistook Irwin's shadow for a tiger shark, its main prey. All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds," said Lyons. I thought – this is going to be a great shot, fantastic. The final shot was to be of Irwin swimming up to the stingray, with Lyons then filming it swim away. Stingrays are usually calm and will just swim away if frightened, he said. Instead they came across a 2.4-metre-wide stingray, and entered chest-deep water to film it. ![]() Irwin and Lyons were just over a week into filming a series called Ocean's Deadliest on the Great Barrier Reef in September 2006 when they took an inflatable boat a short distance from the main vessel carrying the rest of the crew in the hope of finding a tiger shark, Lyons said. As we're motoring back I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound and we're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on.' He just sort of calmly looked up at me and said, 'I'm dying.' And that was the last thing he said." Even if we'd been able to get him into an emergency ward at that moment we probably wouldn't have been able to save him, because the damage to his heart was massive.
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