He had about a two-inch-wide injury over his heart with blood and fluid coming out of it.'
Ready? 'It's a jagged, sharp barb and it went through his chest like a hot knife through butter. It wasn't until I panned the camera back, that Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood, that I realized something had gone wrong.' … I panned with the camera as the stingray swam away, I didn't even know it had caused any damage. 'It probably thought that Steve's shadow was a tiger shark, which feeds on them very regularly.
'All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail, hundreds of strikes in a few seconds,' he said. The man whom Irwin often called his 'right hand man' and 'best mate' said the ray was swimming away when, almost inexplicably, it flipped out. According to Lyons, rumors that the wildlife advocate provoked the stingray were false.
