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RE: Gold Stingray Coin as Gold Surpasses $4,000!
Whenever I hear or see stingray I think of Steve Irwin the Aussie Crocodile Hunter who was killed by one...
He died on 4 September 2006, at the age of 44.
He was filming an underwater documentary called Ocean's Deadliest in the Great Barrier Reef when he was pierced in the chest by a stingray's barb. His cameraman, Justin Lyons, said the stingray mistook Irwin's shadow for a tiger shark and struck him with its tail multiple times. The barb went through his thoracic wall and pierced his heart, causing massive trauma.
Irwin was pronounced dead at the scene, despite his crew's attempts to perform CPR. His death was a tragic and rare accident, as fatalities from stingray attacks are extremely uncommon.
It's a beautiful coin and I would love to have one!
Stingrays just don't kill people as a general rule, Irwin's death was the equivalent of being struck by lightning. He was inexperienced in the water and had he been more aware it never would have happened, but the chances of a barb piercing the thoracic wall is so incredibly remote... Most of the time a person would have walked a way with some nasty sore stings, not dead on arrival. Poor guy, I felt bad for his young kids losing him so early in life!
Yeah it was the repeated stabbings that got me. Sad to see but that is life.
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