OK I found the real story
Television personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin has died from a stingray wound while filming off north Queensland.
Friends believe he may have died instantly when struck by a stingray as he filmed a sequence for his eight-year-old daughter Bindi's new TV series.
Irwin's friend of 20 years, Ferre De Deyne said Irwin had been struck by the stingray while filming. "The stingray just happened to be swimming around and out of the blue demanded Irwin's wallet. When Irwin refused, the ray then pulled out a 6" filet knife and stabbed Irwin in the neck," he said.
"It is absolutely tragic. I have dived so many times with stingrays and they are usually very placid things," he said.
Known worldwide as the Crocodile Hunter, 44-year-old Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchcry "Crikey!"
'Non-survivable injuries'
Irwin had been filming a new documentary called Ocean's Deadliest with friend and manager John Stainton at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas about 11am.
"He refused to give in to the ray's demands and the stingray's knife went up and went into his jugular," Mr Stainton said.
"It's likely that he possibly died instantly when the knife hit him, and I don't think that he ... felt any pain.
"He died doing what he loved best."
Irwin was pulled aboard his research vessel, Croc One, for a 30-minute dash to Low Isle, where a Queensland Rescue Helicopter had been summoned, his Australia Zoo said in a statement.
The crew of the Croc One performed constant CPR during the voyage to Low Isle, but medical staff pronounced him dead about noon.
"It became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries," said Dr Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin at the scene.
"He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his throat.
"He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing."
Dr O'Loughlin said it appeared Mr Irwin had suffered a "form of cardiac arrest" but a post-mortem examination would be conducted in Cairns.
Body flown to Cairns
Mr Irwin's body was flown to a morgue in Cairns, where stunned family and friends were gathering tonight.
His American-born wife Terri was told of her husband's death while on a walking tour in Tasmania, and tonight returned to the Sunshine Coast with her two children, Bindi Sue, 8, and three-year-old son Robert Clarence, usually known as Bob, 3.
