He pulled it out and the next minute he's gone." "Steve came over the top of the ray and then the tail came up and spiked him. "It's shocking, it's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die," he said. Irwin's producer and close friend John Stainton has described his distress at viewing film of the Crocodile Hunter's final moments before his death. "I've got to tell you the people on the back deck of the boat, including the skipper at that stage, if I ever had to have a group of five or six people looking after me in that situation, they are the first people I would call. "Every piece of first aid brain went into overdrive and I really can't talk about what went on there," he said. He says crew members did all they could to save him. "I think we all found a spot on the boat where we could be alone and you just didn't believe it, these things don't happen, the guy is invincible and there he is, we lost him, he's gone." "It was just deathly silence, it was absolutely deathly silence," he said. Queensland marine researcher Jamie Seymour has told Channel Nine it was hard to comprehend. Last momentsĪ man on board Irwin's boat when he died has told of the stunned silence when people on board knew attempts to revive him had failed. The Queensland Government is considering a state funeral. "I found him essentially very much a person of what you saw is what you got - there was nothing contrived, he was a genuine, one-off remarkable Australian individual and I am distressed at his death." "He was a great Australian icon," he said. Prime Minister John Howard says Irwin's death has shocked and horrified the people of Australia. His body was taken from the morgue in Cairns and put on a private jet for the journey to the Sunshine Coast. The 44-year-old wildlife crusader died after a stingray barb pierced his heart off Port Douglas.
Thousands of fans from across Australia and around the world have made the pilgrimage to Irwin's Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast to pay their respects to the 'Crocodile Hunter'. The body of Steve Irwin has been returned to his family on the Sunshine Coast after his death in far north Queensland.
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