Assumably, the sting rays were already agitated by the sharks in the near by area. It's really sad. The guy was rich and a father, there was really no need for him to risk his life so constantly--he could have bought his own zoo.

Tribute to Steve Irwin: An Aussie who put the country on America's world map.

My Australia Day 2006 avatar summarizes how 'Australian' he was. You go around the world and you ask someone who Steve Irwin is, you get an image of Australia.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...8/Avatar10.jpg
1962-2006

[QUOTE=quest2368]Rest in Peace, Steve Irwin. Like the others have said, of all the stuff he's been through, you would think that he would be well prepared and cautious. But on the other side, he's living on the edge. Very daring and he's just asking to get hurt.

Apparently he swam over the stingray and didnt provoke it, but it swam up and hit him in the heart, i was very shocked to hear this, felt way too strange that one minute he is there and the next he isnt.
RIP.

He already did own his own zoo. =D

It's probably waaaaay too early to tell, but I've been hearing rumors that his show on Animal Planet will continue with Terri Irwin at the helm and Jeff Corwin taking up some additional slack through his own show. Has anyone else heard the same thing?