Steve Irwin killed by stingray

Australian television personality Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray while filming a segment on the “Ocean’s Deadliest” off the Great Barrier Reef. The stingray’s poisonous barb punctured his heart while he swam above the animal, an event called a “freak accident” by experts. “The footage shows him swimming in the water, the ray stopped and turned and that was it,” said boat owner Peter West, who viewed the footage afterwards. There have been only 17 fatal stingray attacks worldwide.