Today, police have viewed the footage that was shot in the Great Barrier Reef, when the tragic death of 'The Crocodile Hunter' occurred. Steve, one of the most loved television stars, who became famous for his braving acts with crocodiles, poisonous snakes and many other dangerous animals and for his love of Australian fauna, was killed yesterday by a tail of a stingray.
John Stainton, the manager of late Irwin, told the press: 'It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here [in the chest]. He pulled it out and the next minute he's gone. The cameraman had to shut down. It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die... it's terrible'.
But the footage proved what investigators already suspected: Steve has not provoked the stingray, not in the least degree. It did turn out, nevertheless, that it was not the poison that put an end to the life of the famous Irwin, but the force with which the barb lacerated the flesh, both when entering his heart and when he ripped it out of his body.
'The strongly serrated barb is capable of tearing and rendering flesh. It's not the going in that causes the damage, it's the coming out where those deep serrations kind of pull on the flesh, and you end up with a very jagged tear which is quite a pronounced injury', the director of the Australian Venom Research Unit said in a press release.
The tape containing the tragic moment of Steve's death is currently in police custody, where it will remain until the investigation is concluded.
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