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Sep 3, 2021 · This Saturday (4 September) is the 15 th anniversary of the beloved Aussie animal activist's death while filming on Batt Reef, which led to an outpouring of grief from around the world.
On 4 September 2006, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, and television programmer Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray while filming in the Great Barrier Reef. The stingray's barb pierced his chest, penetrating his thoracic wall and heart, causing massive trauma.
Batt Reef is centred at 16°24′S 145°46′E [2] The reef is about 18 km long by 5 km (11 miles by 3 miles) wide, lying northwest to southeast, at the northern side of the Trinity Passage that leads from the inner Reef channel from Trinity Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
He was at Batt Reef, near Port Douglas, Queensland, taking part in the production of the documentary series Ocean's Deadliest. Irwin's death is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray captured on video. [52]
Aug 25, 2020 · So when he took off to film a documentary in Queensland's Batt Reef, it just seemed like another adventure.
May 3, 2021 · On September 4, 2006, Steve was in Batt Reef working on Ocean’s Deadliest, a documentary that he was co-hosting with Philippe Cousteau Jr. At the time, filming had been suspended due to bad weather, so Steve went out snorkelling to capture footage for Bindi the Jungle Girl , a children’s nature series he was developing that would ...
Steve Irwin was tragically killed by a stingray while filming a segment for his daughter Bindi's show, Bindi the Jungle Girl, on the Great Barrier Reef, 18 years ago.
