![]() ![]() "The stingray attack, the CPR and medical efforts were all captured on film. "Steve had this rule that no matter who was injured we had to keep filming," he said. Once back on Croc One, a second camerman took over so Justin could give Steve mouth-to-mouth - something he continued to do for an entire hour until paramedics took one look at him and declared him dead. He pulled the barb from his chest, and died shortly afterwards. According to colleague John Stainton, Irwin came up over the top of the stingray, and the stingray defensively thrusted its spine upward into his chest. Perhaps knowing his injuries were far more serious than suspected, the cameras even caught the heartbreaking moment Steve turned to Justin and calmly said, "I'm dying." Those would be his last words. As they were filming at the time, the deadly strike was captured on video. "As we're motoring back I'm screaming at one of the other crew in the boat to put their hand over the wound and we're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve, hang on, hang on, hang on.'" ![]() Even if we'd been able to get him into an emergency ward at that moment we probably wouldn't have been able to save him because the damage to his heart was massive," Justin said. Steve died in a freak accident 14 years ago today ITV) In a cruel twist of fate, Steve, 44, was not supposed to be out at sea on that fateful day - Septemas filming for his programme Ocean's Deadliest was called off due to bad. ![]()
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