"With each encounter we learn more about this amazing animal and there is no doubt - we now treat this normally docile giant with the same respect once reserved for dangerous marine animals," he added. There are many species at Batt Reef some nearly 2 metres in diameter and weighing in excess of 200kg," he said. As they were filming at the time, the deadly strike was captured on video. Until Steve's death we paid little attention to stingrays. On September 4, 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally attacked by a stingray while filming a documentary off the coast of Australia. "Like so many I was one who didn't truly appreciate the significance of Steve and his work until it was too late. West, an underwater cameraman, returned to Batt Reef on Monday night to pay quiet homage to the memory of Irwin, and to film the big bull rays that claimed his life. The vicinity of the wound, the amount of blood he had already lost and the apparent lack of vital signs," he added. It didn't take any time for me to realise the seriousness of the situation. "The driver told me Steve had been ' hit by a stingray'. "I could see Steve slumped in the arms of his other crew member," West said.
He was pulled from the water by the cameraman and a member of the crew, and taken to the Deepstar about 500m away. The tragedy struck when Irwin was shooting the documentary Deadly Sea Creatures on Batt Reef.
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