Sad but True! I was one of his huge fans!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html

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http://www.news.com.au/0,,,00.html

Sad, I liked him...
May his soul rest in peace..
-Shiv

IT'S RELLY SAD THAT WE MISSED HIM AND HIS DANGERIOUS DEEDS EVER DONE WITH CORCODILES.

WELL, HE ALWAYS RISKED HIS LIFE IN HIS EVERY ACT, WOULD HAVE DIED EARLIER .

Miss you Steve !

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really not 'relly' .. ( sorry )

OMG. i liked him and his shows so much. really sad news this morning.

my role model RIP croc hunter died doin wat he loved doin in his life

never felt so sad since the death of BABU CHIRI SHERPA.

may their soul rest in peace..

It was almost inevitable that he would not die a normal death and would die in an accident. When he was on crocodile hunter sometime i used to get scared . I sincerely hope his wife tery doesnot take up his role and continue because she has kids to look after.

May his soul rest in peace.

Steve, you will always be remebmbered as a true emblem of humanity. At the time when man is becoming more and more cruel you showed the world how friendship could be done with animals. Hats off to you man......

Physically, you are no more with us but definitely you will live in our hearts for ever and ever. I feel sorry for Terry but this is life and yep, it went the way it shouldn't have but we have to accept the fate.

We will always miss you, steve.

ohhh...what a sad news...i like his prgramme..such an unexpected ...i didn't know that sting ray will kill the person,...i was rather scared of crocodile......may his soul rest in peace...

i got some information about stingrays from wikepedia.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray

It is such a sad news. He seemed almost invincible and yet his death was so tragic.
"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time (USAtoday.com)

TO MILLIONS of television viewers in Europe, Britain and the US, Steve Irwin - the buffoonish, khaki-clad loudmouth who made both a hobby and a higher calling out of wrestling with crocodiles - embodied what it meant to be Australian.

Much like Paul Hogan, who served as a cultural ambassador, and Crocodile Dundee a decade before him, Irwin's cartoonish screen persona, with his bulging eyes and enthusiastic chatter, was laughable, laudable and lovable. Not to mention immensely popular.

Irwin had several top-rating television shows to his name, including Crocodile Hunter, Croc Files and The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, a 2002 film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, and a multimillion-dollar marketing blitz which included everything from action figures (of him, his wife, Terri, and an assortment of scaly nasties) to a pinball machine.

All told, he was nothing less than a global television and marketing phenomenon.

A character based on Irwin even appeared in an episode of South Park, a rare acknowledgement that he was - at least for a moment - at the epicentre of the pop-cultural zeitgeist, along with other South Park targets Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise.

And yet Irwin's international success sits in uneasy contrast to his popularity in Australia. Here he was, at best, a jolly Queensland curiosity whose second wind was fuelled by a mild, pantomime-ish send-up on Nine's The Footy Show. At worst, he was an ocker-sounding self-parody who infamously held his son, Bob, in one arm, while he fed a crocodile with the other.

The international fallout from "the Baby Bob incident" at least confirmed the extent of his popularity abroad. And it brought him back to the attention of an Australian audience which had, for many years, regarded his international success with spectacular indifference.

The Crocodile Hunter's Australian fame - or the lack of it - puzzled many abroad who never quite understood why he was regarded with such lack of interest (even disdain) by so many here for so long. His popularity abroad, which long ago eclipsed that of Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee, served as a powerful lesson in both the changing nature of modern celebrity and the immense power of television as a platform for such fame.

Wow....what a sudden death....but he died doing what he loved

May his soul rest in peace.

Aneesha

I am so used to of watching him and I hate that he is no more!! May detarted soul rest in peace!! My condolence with his family, friends and fans all ove rthe world.

I was shocked when i heard this! I was fond of him.
May his soul rest in peace.