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  2. Death of Steve Irwin - Wikipedia

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    While swimming in chest-deep water, 44-year-old Steve Irwin approached a stingray, with an approximate span of two metres (6 ft 7 in), from the rear, in order to film it swimming away. While the stingray has been described by most sources as a short-tail stingray, others have suggested that it may have been an Australian bull ray.

  3. Steve Irwin's Death: Looking Back at the Shocking Stingray ...

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    Steve Irwin may have died nearly two decades ago but his legacy continues to live on through his family.. On Sept. 4, 2006, the wildlife conservationist unexpectedly died following an unprovoked ...

  4. Stingray injury - Wikipedia

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    There are reports of stingers breaking off in wounds, but this may be rare. [weasel words] [6] This would not be fatal to the stingray as it will be regrown at a rate of about 1.25 to 2 centimetres (0.49 to 0.79 in) per month (though with significant variations depending on the size of the stingray and the exact species).

  5. List of unusual deaths in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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    Steve Irwin: 4 September 2006: The 44-year-old Australian wildlife expert and television personality was pierced in the chest by a short-tail stingray's barb while filming in shallow water in the Great Barrier Reef. [26] [27] [28] Alexander Litvinenko: 23 November 2006

  6. Graham ‘Dingo’ Dinkelman, Known as South Africa’s Steve Irwin ...

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    Dinkelman was best known as South Africa’s Steve Irwin, another famous conservationist who died on the job. (Irwin died at age 44 in 2006 following a stingray attack.) (Irwin died at age 44 in ...

  7. YouTuber Dubbed 'South Africa's Steve Irwin' Dies After Being ...

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    In a sad coincidence, Irwin also died at age 44 after a deadly animal encounter. The popular Crocodile Hunter host died after being impaled by a stingray barb in his chest while diving in his ...

  8. Animal attacks in Australia - Wikipedia

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    On 4 September 2006 Steve Irwin died from a stingray attack at Batt Reef near Port Douglas [131] A twelve-year-old boy in 1988, who was hit by stingray jumping from the water, died six days later due to poison from the barb. [132] Luigi Deguisto in June 1953 died at Weribee after a stingray punctured his thigh, piercing a vein. [133]

  9. Robert Irwin holds back tears after seeing father Steve’s wax ...

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    Steve Irwin’s son Robert was left visibly emotional as he attended the unveiling of his new waxwork at Madame Tussauds Sydney.. The 20-year-old has followed in his late father’s footsteps as a ...