"The stingray barb was a blade of about a foot extending out of the tail. Many early reports suggested that Irwin tried to remove the barb from his chest, something Lyons insists is untrue. ![]() It wasn’t until I panned the camera back and Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood that I realised something was wrong." ![]() "I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away - I didn’t even know it had caused any damage. "All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail. You swim up from behind the animal and I’ll try to get a shot of it swimming away'. "Stingrays are normally very calm - if they don’t want you to be near them, they’ll swim away," Lyons told Network Ten's Studio 10 show. The wildlife presenter died back in 2006 when he was stabbed by a stingray while filming for his latest documentary.Ĭameraman Justin Lyons was the only person to witness 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin's final moments and he has now opened up about them for the first time. Steve Irwin's final words have been revealed by the man who shot the popular Australian's fatal last scene.
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