Steve Irwin, RIP

Postby **Bud** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:31 am

Sad news; On top of everything, this guy was a pretty good surfer too.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_ ... obit_irwin

surfer9joe · Postby **surfer9joe** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:37 am

Died doing what he loved, there is omethingto be said for that. RIP crocodile hunter!!!
Now he is surfing on the backs of dolphins in the sky

Rocky Rockbottom · Postby **Rocky Rockbottom** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:53 am

Thanks for the smiles, Steve.

red · Postby **red** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:21 am

A freakin' STINGRAY? Jeez out of all the dangerous animals he's snuggled with the poor bloke gets snuffed by an ankle biter. It's kind of like getting your jugular torn open by a shitzu. Possible, but come on!

Haoleboy · Postby **Haoleboy** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:24 am

Really sad.
Only 1 other death ever recorded from a sting ray. Total freak accident. That guy tickled the pitbull an awful lot though. Unfortunatly he finally got bit.

bigwaveslider · Postby **bigwaveslider** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:21 pm

Mahalo Steve ,
You will be missed but not forgoten.
Thank you for what you did and brought to us all in your tv showes and at the zoo.
God bless the Irwin ohana at this time of greff .

bigwaveslider · Postby **bigwaveslider** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:24 pm

yes he was . Just saw a show whare rob machado , donavin frankenriter went to te zoo and hung out with steve.
I even saw some surf fotige of steve short boarding in a early crockadile hunter .

Puerto_Rico_Surfer · Postby **Puerto_Rico_Surfer** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:45 pm

Freaky thing is he wasnt even messing with the ray as he normally does with animals when putting on a show. From what I read so far, Steve and the camerman were snorkling shooting video on broken reef with patches of sand in about 3-5' of water and the ray was buried in the sand, they knew it was there and were floating by taking video and as steve was floating over the top it just freaked and whipped the tail up and struck him directly in the heart. Steve yanked the barb out but died almost on the spot. A freakin one in a billion accident!

Obviously I have never met the man, but damn I feel like he was a close family member, I am really going to miss him. I hope Australia gives him a proper funeral. RIP Steve.

goro · Postby **goro** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:01 am

i think i saw an old episode of him surfing in indonesia in his khakis...
what a trip...but he surfed way better than me...
having done the stingray city thing in grand cayman and been marked by their love bites...plus dating a woman whose one foot ended up smaller than the other after an encounter with one as a girl...i have a healthy respect for them...

goro · Postby **goro** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:47 pm

surfers say aloha to steve:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060910/2/10h7q.html

SupremeNY · Postby **SupremeNY** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:29 am

The is no better way to go out than doing what you love. I'll see you at the pearly gates hombre! R.I.P.

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Steve Irwin, RIP

Steve Irwin, RIP

Mahalo Steve

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