Aside from the physical injury itself, which can be very serious, Stingray barbs are also venomous.

Matt

The venom caused a heart attack. Fatalities from stingray barbs virtually all occur when the torso is struck.

he loved and respected animals, and the environment. just saw a tribute interview on Enough Rope, originally screened in 2003.

he was really an amazing guy. such a loss.

Someone was telling me just this past Saturday that I could swim with the stingrays at one of the ports of call when I go on my cruise. She said her 70 year-old mother loves it but now I think I'll pass on that excursion!

__________________





"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

The report I just read on Discovery's website says the barb actually penetrated under his ribcage and into the heart muscle.

A freak occurrence to be sure.

Matt

My friends death was due to liver failure caused by the venom. He probably wouldn't have died but his liver was already bad from Hepatitis C.

__________________

I needs government help to live.
I must be a liberal.

What really sucks is that its so rare to actually die from a stingray attack (Well, not rare enough anyway), here is a guy who was taught to defend himself from certain death, and a freak accident like this happens. Something that could happen to anyone caught unaware. Apparently he accidently boxed in a stingray he didn't know was there because it was covered by sand, and was struck in the chest. Damn.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...win/index.html

This is so sad................man i loved his show and he taught so many people about animals..........

Though i feel for his loss. I was saddened the time he dangled his toddler for tv in front of those crocodiles.

I lost all intrest in him and thought he was a mad man after that.

It sickened me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuTTxZvI9w

this is a youtube of it last like min 30 secs

__________________
Hardcore Conservative !

I said Conservative not necessarly Republican or Democrat. Liberals are in both of those parties.

Very sad news indeed. RIP Steve.

__________________
Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got blacks the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things. Now they are opposing health care.

I was thinking the same thing prior to his demise.

We did that at a park in Cozumel. Kind of spooky now to look back on

__________________
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Andrew

__________________
“...corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.”

-- Derrick Jensen

I hope animal planet will have a “Crocodile Hunter” marathon.
Every time we watched his show we had that eek smiley look on our faces.

__________________
Only a liberal would know how hard it is to get a nicotine patch to stick to a monkey.

That was such a media beat up. If you say the footage from a different angle, you would have seen that he was about 3-4 metres away; not as close as it appeared in some footage. And, as he said in an interview, his kids are growing to grow up surrounded by these creatures, so they need to learn all about them.

On a separate note, it has just been reported in Australia that because they were filming a segment on dangerous animals for a new series, his death has been captured on film. For the sake of good taste and media integrity I sincerely hope that it is not shown. That would be disgusting.

From all accounts, he was genuinely very dedicated to his job.

He died doing something he loved to do.

There are worse ways to leave this life.....

Matt